A Scottish term of endearment for a cup of tea — warm, homey, and carrying all the cozy connotations of a proper brew shared between friends or family.
A Scottish term of endearment for a cup of tea — warm, homey, and carrying all the cozy connotations of a proper brew shared between friends or family. While standard English speakers reach for "cuppa," Scots might affectionately call it a stroupach. The word has a soft, comforting sound that suits exactly what it describes: a simple pleasure that fixes most problems.
Come in out of the rain and I'll put the kettle on — a wee stroupach will sort you right out.
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(UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) A cup of tea (or sometimes any hot drink).
A Scottish colloquial term for tea — simple, direct, and very Scottish. Where the English might just say 'a cup of tea', the Scots sometimes reach for 'tea-water', treating the drink as a straightforward compound. It also literally refers to the water used for brewing tea, but in Scottish informal usage, it's just another way of saying you're putting the kettle on.
(UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) Whatever interests or suits one; one's cup of tea.
A Scottish dialectal expression for tea itself, or the water used to make tea. The first sense -- tea as 'tea-water' -- is a colloquial synecdoche, naming the drink after one of its components. The term is informal and distinctly regional. Outside Scotland it would not be understood as a natural way to refer to tea, making it an immediately localizing piece of vocabulary.
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(Scottish) a cup of tea.
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