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In some senses, cuppa is marked as UK, colloquial. Watch for register when choosing this word.
ADJ.
fancy, hot, nice
VERB + CUPPA
drank, go, like, made, stop
CUPPA + NOUN
perk, you're
PREP.
about, on, with
noun
A cup of tea (or sometimes any hot drink).
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.
Whatever interests or suits one; one's cup of tea.
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.
Pronunciation spelling of cup of.
I just felt like I wanted another cuppa coffee and I told her so;[…]and before I could get just one more cuppa coffee it was seven-fifty!
And he orders a cuppa cawfee. “A cuppa cawfee and what else?” I says to him.
noun — a cup of tea
I’ve just put the kettle on – fancy a cuppa?
Wiktionary[…] 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, an
Wiktionary1992, 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.
WiktionaryAnyone fancy a cuppa?
Tatoeba · #4727158Would you like a cuppa?
Tatoeba · #8037983I'm sure we'd all be glad of a nice cuppa.
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In some senses, cuppa is marked as UK, colloquial. Watch for register when choosing this word.