( Ecclesiastical ) IPA ( key): /Л€kup.pa/, Д¬uppa f ( genitive cuppae) first declension.Probably from cЕ«pa ( вЂњ tub, cask вЂќ ) but compare also Proto-West Germanic *kopp ( вЂњ round object, bowl, vessel вЂќ ). вЂњThatвЂІs a new line, isnвЂІt it? Come up to my suite for a cuppa coffee.вЂќДЇound in Late and Vulgar Latin. 2008, Frank Deford, The Entitled: A Tale of Modern Baseball, page 204,.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! 1997, Sinclair Lewis, Anthony Di Renzo (editor), Commutation: $9.17, If I Were Boss: The Early Business Stories of Sinclair Lewis,.вЂњA cuppa cawfee and what else?вЂќ I says to him. 1940, The New Yorker, Volume 16, Part 1, page 22,ДЄnd he orders a cuppa cawfee.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.

2001, Gabrielle Bauer, Waltzing the Tango: Confessions of an Out-of-step Boomer (page 210).

( Commonwealth of Nations except Canada, colloquial ) Whatever interests or suits one one's cup of tea.

вЂHere,вЂ™ said Clancy as he sat up and dangled his legs over the edge of the bed, вЂYou sit down and take it easy.

2007, Kevin Hallewell, Woop Woop, page 35,.

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

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. Only Bobbie was present when we arrived at the trough. We covered the hundred yards to the lawn where the tea table awaited us.

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