coffee

Forms

1.A serving of this beverage.
- As I sip a coffee at Brasserie Balzar, two well-known intellectuals, one publisher and a Sorbonne professor were discussing Sarkozy's future: "He won't finish his mandate" says one.
2.The powder made by roasting and grinding the seeds.
- Do you want to drink tea or coffee?
- Tom put salt in his coffee instead of sugar.
3.A beverage made by infusing the beans of the coffee plant in hot water.
- He and his friends used to order coffee whenever they went out.
- The great use of coffee in France is supposed to have abated the prevalency of the gravel, for where coffee is used as a constant beverage, the gravel and the gout are scarcely known.
- The Turks have a drink called coffa (for they use no wine), so named of a berry as black as soot, and as bitter[…], which they sip still of, and sup as warm as they can suffer[…].
4.The seeds of the plant used to make coffee, called ‘beans’ due to their shape.
- Do you want to drink tea or coffee?
- Tom put salt in his coffee instead of sugar.

1.Of a pale brown colour, like that of milk coffee.
2.Of a table: a small, low table suitable for people in lounge seating to put coffee cups on.

1.To drink coffee.
- He coffeed and sandwiched along the highway.
- We sat and coffee’d with people in the living room.
- Jack Herington “coffee-d” with delegates on Wednesday morning.
2.To give coffee to.
- You all fed me and coffee’d me and warmed me up.
- There we were met by enterprising citizens and coffeed and sandwiched by pretty girls.
- “In the daytimes, he fixes things for people,” I said, “and in return they keep him sandwiched and coffeed.”

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Etymology tree

Arabic قَهْوَة (qahwa)bor.

Ottoman Turkish قهوه (kahve)bor.

Italian caffèbor.

Dutch koffiebor.

English coffee