cuppa

noun

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

1. 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.”

2. 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.”

3. 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.”