coggie

9.9

A small cup for drinking tea or coffee

noun
/ˈkɒɡi/

Slang

: taza pequeña

Look at this cute coggie!

Examples

I drank my tea from a lovely coggie.
The old cottage had a shelf lined with colorful coggies collected over the years.
He poured tea into a chipped coggie by the fire.
She always drinks her morning coffee from her favorite coggie.
She poured her tea into a small coggie to enjoy on the go.
After the meal, he sipped coffee from his favorite coggie.
The children happily drank hot chocolate from their colorful coggies.

Synonyms

glassie

vscoggie

1 9.9

A small drinking glass used for juice or water

is a cup or mug rather than a glass vessel

Surface Forms

coggie singular

coggies plural

Morphology

coggie = cog (transparent) = cog + ie

As a diminutive built from dialectal 'cog' meaning a cup or vessel, the sense 'small cup or mug' is directly predictable.

Etymology

The word coggie is a British regional word for a small cup and probably comes from an older short word cog meaning a drinking vessel, plus the familiar English ending -ie that makes things sound 'little' or friendly. A helpful way to remember it is like 'dog' to 'doggie' — cog becomes coggie, so it simply means a 'little cup'.