Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Chiefly British A cup of tea.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A cup; specifically, ecclesiastical, the bowl or cup of a chalice or of a ciborium.
Wiktionary
- n. UK, colloquial A cup of tea.
- n. Eye dialect spelling of cup of.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. British a cup of tea.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a cup of tea
Etymologies
- Ellipsis with elision of cup of tea. (Wiktionary)
- Short for cuppa tea, alteration of cup of tea. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“During practice, it got away from Miles and smashed into a tree, an obstacle so rare at Sebring that the team modified his nickname "Teddy Teabagger" - based on his fondness for his afternoon "cuppa" - to "Teddy Treebagger.”
“For matriarch Sarah Kahn a glorious performance by Samantha Spiro, a cuppa is a panacea.”
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“VAN MARSH: In a country famous for its high tea, there's new speculation that the British tradition of a cuppa was the clandestine cover to kill a former Russian spy in London.”
“ALFONZO VAN MARSH, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Reporter: in a country famous for its high tea, there is new speculation that the British tradition of a cuppa was the clandestine cover to kill a former Russian spy in London.”
“But when did we all start making that delicious black liquid brown? free download) 1922 volume "All About Coffee" by William H. Ukers, it was a Dutch ambassador in 1660 who first had the bright idea to mix nature's liquid candy with the life-giving elixir we know as a cuppa joe.”
“Hayley's mother told Wales on Sunday that having the Hoff round for a cuppa was a "surreal" experience.”
“But the main event wasn't just about having a "cuppa" together.”
“I always love looking at your posts in the morning with my "cuppa" and oogling your lovely photographs.”
“Famous for their love of a good "cuppa", the British introduced the beverage to Canada when they began its colonization.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cuppa’.
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Irish English that's not in American ...
Well-known phrases in Irish English that aren't understood in American English.
or next offer, hoover, plaster, soother, chimnea, craic, bits and bobs, grinds, jumper, mum, chancer, ticks all the boxes and 60 more...
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reginaterra's Words
purl, blow, squish, andean, generality, adaptation, lush, pack, filter, acquiesce, abstraction, sweet and 508 more...
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The braggadocio recipe
A selection of English* words ending with a vowel (except "y", "ea", ie", "ee", "oo", "ea", "ou") that is REALLY pronounced.
My favorite English words, by the way.
The good twin of The ...braggadocio, recipe, encyclopedia, solo, gnu, flu, maybe, apocope, mini, arrhythmia, folio, stereo and 197 more...
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Alles ganz verschieden
Listed various words that have come into my mind. Will edit them at some point - honestly.
dog-gold, shoulderlooker, mr. considering, the pigwoman, stevie is waiting, chingwybodganpwy, thelandscapeisstu..., couchsurfing, cappuccinodrinking, meat-eater, posher, mae rhaid i fi fynd and 581 more...
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Vocab++
Words as I learn them.
fetid, mezzanine, hiatus, austerity, subliminal, resplendent, implacable, impugn, debase, exiguous, cirque, holster and 2538 more...
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Sweet Smoke of Rhetoric
The ones with which I flavor my speech, and the ones I love to find peppered in literature.
perspicacious, acerbic, vituperation, loquacious, castigate, vitriolic, scintillating, provenance, frolic, attendant, pursuant, epistemology and 313 more...
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The Way of Tea
All things tea (lingo, paraphernalia, types).
high tea, meat tea, four o'clock tea, five o'clock tea, tea party, teapoy, tea service, tea set, tea tray, teapot, teakettle, tea urn and 150 more...
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coffee talk
mocha, java, joe, cuppa, mud, chicory, cowboy, turkish, toddy, sanka, espresso, irish and 8 more...
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cringe quotes
These words and phrases may make you cringe. You might feel embarrassed for the person who says them, or perhaps just annoyed to hear them utter such terms.
cuppa, large and in charge, gay boyfriend, avo, little boys' room, captain obvious, kewl, functionality, blogosphere, chill, appie, lish and 8 more...
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Awaydays (2009)
Words from a 2009 'Awaydays' film.
catch up, beaut, swill, ponce, buck, bevvy, la, divvy, baddie, noose, deffo, mooch around and 36 more...
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Words I hate
These are words I hate.
oh-ten, fart, looky loo, hubbub, giggle, cuppa, peduncle, butterfield, bulbous, goodly, [air quotes], wacky and 13 more...
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Australian Derivation ... or, you kno...
Words I heard there. Or from Australians.
didjeridoo, budgerigar, kangaroo, wombat, kookaburra, echidna, koala, dreamtime, matilda, waltzing matilda, billabong, coolibah and 44 more...
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Word Box
A figurative box of words I don't want to miss.
quomodocunquize, distrain, foudroyant, vellicate, rhapsodize, dastard, zenzizenzizenzic, cuppa, fnese, intercloud, ofter, dimwitticism and 53 more...
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food and drink
Tweets
Looking for tweets for cuppa.
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