different between cuppa vs offa

English

Alternative forms

• cupper

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?p?/
• Rhymes: -?p?

Noun

cuppa (plural cuppas)

1. (Commonwealth of Nations except Canada, colloquial) A cup of tea (or sometimes any hot drink).
   • 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.

   • 2007, Kevin Hallewell, Woop Woop, page 35,

     ‘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.

2. (Commonwealth of Nations except Canada, colloquial) Whatever interests or suits one; one's cup of tea.
   • 2001, Gabrielle Bauer, Waltzing the Tango: Confessions of an Out-of-step Boomer (page 210)

     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.
   • 1940, The New Yorker, Volume 16, Part 1, page 22,

     And he orders a cuppa cawfee. “A cuppa cawfee and what else?” I says to him.

   • 1997, Sinclair Lewis, Anthony Di Renzo (editor), Commutation: $9.17, If I Were Boss: The Early Business Stories of Sinclair Lewis,

     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!

   • 2008, Frank Deford, The Entitled: A Tale of Modern Baseball, page 204,

     “That?s a new line, isn?t it? Come up to my suite for a cuppa coffee.”

Anagrams

• cap up

Latin

Etymology

Found in Late and Vulgar Latin. From c?pa (“tub, cask”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?kup.pa/, [?k?p?ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?kup.pa/, [?kup??]

Noun

cuppa f (genitive cuppae); first declension

1. drinking vessel
2. barrel, cask
3. axle
4. bar of an oil press

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

• Eastern Romance:
  • Aromanian: cupã
  • Romanian: cup?
• Italian: coppa
  • ? Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic: ?????

    Latin: k?pa

• Old French: cope
  • French: coupe
    • ? English: coupe
  • Norman: coupe
• Old Leonese:
  • Asturian: copa
• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: copa
• Old Portuguese:
  • Portuguese: copa, copo
    • ? Japanese: ??? (koppu)
    • ? Kadiwéu: goopa
    • ? Swahili: kopo
• Old Spanish: copa
  • Spanish: copa
    • ? Basque: kopa
    • ? O'odham: ko?ba
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: cope
• ? Albanian: kupë
• ? Ancient Greek: ????? (koûpa)
  • Byzantine Greek: ????? (koúpa)
    • Greek: ????? (koúpa)
    • ? Aramaic:

      Hebrew: ????? (k?b?)

      Syriac: ????? (k?b?)

      • ? Arabic: ????? (k?b)
        • Hijazi Arabic: ???? (k?b, k?b)
• ? Old English: cuppe
  • Middle English: cuppe, coppe
    • English: cup
      • ? Farefare: k?p?
      • ? Hebrew: ???? (kap)
      • ? Japanese: ??? (kappu)
      • ? Korean: ? (keop)
      • ? Maori: kapu
    • Scots: cuppe, capp, cap, caup, kap
    • ? Middle Irish: cupa
      • Irish: cupa
      • Scottish Gaelic: cupa
• ? Old Irish: cuppán
  • Irish: cupán
• ? Old High German: kupfa, kupha, kuppa
  • Middle High German: kupfe
    • German: Kuppe
    • Luxembourgish: Kopp

Many descendants of Proto-Germanic *kuppaz have conflated with this word. See there for more.

References

• cuppa in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

English

Preposition

offa

1. (colloquial) Off of.

Related terms

• cuppa
• lotta

Anagrams

• FOAF, foaf

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *yffl (“morsel”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?of.fa/, [??f?ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?of.fa/, [??f??]

Noun

offa f (genitive offae); first declension

1. a morsel; a piece; a chunk
2. a dumpling

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

• offula

References

• offa in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• offa in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• offa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette