Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

cuppa

/ˈkʌp.ə/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: 2.70 in modern English

Syllables: cup-pa
IPA: /ˈkʌp.ə/

11

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

2

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A cup of tea (or sometimes any hot drink).

Australian usage; New Zealand usage; British usage; Colloquial

noun

Whatever interests or suits one; one's cup of tea.

Australian usage; New Zealand usage; British usage; Colloquial

noun

Pronunciation spelling of cup of.

Example Sentences

"I’ve just put the kettle on – fancy a cuppa?"
"[…] we covered the hundred yards to the lawn where the tea table awaited us. […] Only Bobbie was present when we arrived at the trough. Wilbert and Phyllis were presumably still in the leafy glade, and Mrs Cream, Bobbie said, worked in her room every afternoon on her new spine-freezer and seldom knocked off for 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."
"‘Here,’ said Clancy as he sat up and dangled his legs over the edge of the bed, ‘You sit down and take it easy. I′ll boil the billy for a cuppa’."
"2017 Mrs. S. "Guillotines Decide" Orphan Black Get Kira up. I'll pour you a cuppa."
"Similes were not my cuppa, anyway. My classmates tended to overload their writing with them (all-time record: six in one paragraph) and they stuck out like violins in a rock tune."

Etymology

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

Usage

Inflected Forms

cuppas (plural) cupper (alternative)

Phrases

cuppa joe

Synonyms

cupper

Questions

How do you pronounce cuppa?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈkʌp.ə/.
What does cuppa mean?: A cup of tea (or sometimes any hot drink).
Where does cuppa come from?: Contraction of cup of (with “tea” or sometimes “coffee” implied). See also a (“of”), pinta (“pint of milk”).

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