Meaning

2 senses

  1. (Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, UK, colloquial)A cup of tea (or sometimes any hot drink).

    I’ve just put the kettle on – fancy a cuppa?

    1992, Machine Knitting Monthly, Maidenhead: Machine Knitting Monthly Ltd., Back home safely, I made a cuppa and sat for a good hour revelling in my favourite magazine.

    a cup of tea

  2. (Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, UK, colloquial)Whatever interests or suits one; one's cup of tea.

Examples

9 sentences

  1. Anyone fancy a cuppa?

    Хтось бажає філажаночку чаю?

    deHätte jemand Lust auf ein Täßchen Tee?

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  2. Would you like a cuppa?

    Не бажаєте філіжаночку чаю?

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  3. I could do with a cuppa.

    deIch hätte Lust auf eine Tasse Tee.

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  4. He drank a cuppa and asked for another.

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  5. I'm sure we'd all be glad of a nice cuppa.

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Origin

Contraction of cup of (with “tea” or sometimes “coffee” implied). See also a (“of”), pinta

Contraction of cup of (with “tea” or sometimes “coffee” implied). See also a (“of”), pinta (“pint of milk”).

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Forms

plural: cuppas
Singularcuppa
Pluralcuppas

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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