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How to spell cup

hear itcup/kəp/nounStarter

What it means: A small container used for drinking liquids.

In a sentence: I drank some milk from a blue cup.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as cupp or caup.

Same family: cupping, cupped, cupper, cup-therapy, fire-cupping. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: This medical verb sense of "cup" comes from the old practice of using actual cups or glass domes to draw blood or stimulate the skin, a technique with roots in ancient Greek, Chinese, and Middle Eastern medicine.

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