coffee
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Arabic قَهْوَة (qahwa)bor.
Ottoman Turkish قهوه (kahve)bor.
Italian caffèbor.
Dutch koffiebor.
English coffee
Borrowed from Dutch koffie, from Italian caffè, from Ottoman Turkish قهوه (kahve), from Arabic قَهْوَة (qahwa). Doublet of café and caffè and cognate with the words for "coffee" in other major European languages, most of which are derived from the Turkish and Italian words.
Inflected forms:
form: coffees
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: coffée
pos: noun
tags: alternative
rare
form: coffée
pos: adj
tags: alternative
rare
form: coffees
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: coffeeing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: coffeed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: coffeed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: coffee'd
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: coffee'd
pos: verb
tags: past
form: coffée
pos: verb
tags: alternative
rare
Senses:
gloss: A beverage made by infusing the beans of the coffee plant in hot water.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: He and his friends used to order coffee whenever they went out.
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[…].
VVhat a devil makes thee in ſo muſty a humour? Thou art as dull and dumpiſh as a fellovv that had been drunk over night vvith Ale, and had done nothing but drunk Coffee, talked Politicks, and read Gazettes all this morning.
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.
"He was here," observed Drina composedly, "and father was angry with him." / "What?" exclaimed Eileen. "When?" / "This morning, before father went downtown." / Both Selwyn and Lansing cut in coolly, dismissing the matter with a careless word or two; and coffee was served—cambric tea in Drina's case.
[…]a new study of how Starbucks has largely avoided paying tax in Britain[…]shows that current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate[…]“stateless income”:[…]. In Starbucks’s case, the firm has in effect turned the process of making an expensive cup of coffee into intellectual property.
gloss: A serving of this beverage.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: 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.
gloss: The seeds of the plant used to make coffee, called ‘beans’ due to their shape.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The powder made by roasting and grinding the seeds.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A tropical plant of the genus Coffea.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A pale brown color, like that of milk coffee.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The end of a meal, when coffee is served.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He did not stay for coffee.
gloss: Of a pale brown colour, like that of milk coffee.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of a table: a small, low table suitable for people in lounge seating to put coffee cups on.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: To drink coffee.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: I rushed into my cabin, coffeed, wined, and went to bed sobbing.
In the afternoon with Hilda and suite in three Einspänner to just beyond Pontresina; we got out and crossed the bridge over the Bernina to Sans Souci Café, where we coffee'''’d.
We had coffee’d with the scoundrel[…]
Mr. and Mrs. Ted Craig (he^([sic]) speaker of the assembly) emerging from a popular drive-in after having sandwiched and coffeed . . .
When Sala sits for Lambeth, then what can’t the House discuss? / He has coffee’d with the Moslem, he has tea’d it with the Russ; / He can analyze the natives from Granada to New York; / He has tasted pumpkin squashes! he can speak the tongue of Cork.
I coffee-ed with your girl friend this morning, her daughter having long since gone to town to make some final arrangements about a Catholic Daughters' frolic for tonight.
He coffeed and sandwiched along the highway.
A while back while coffee-ing with friends, the men were discussing new water tanks, the different makes, costs, etc.
It embarrassed Glover that when his wife coffee’d with a neighbor in the kitchen she had to leave the oven going with the door open to keep the place livable.
We sat and coffee’d with people in the living room.
“Can I at least make you some coffee?” “I’m not in the habit of coffee-ing with strange women.”
Jack Herington “coffee-d” with delegates on Wednesday morning.
She took care of a modest house, “coffee’d” with her neighbors while the husband slept late in the mornings.
While watching television or coffee-ing with a neighbor tape all your wonderful stuff onto 8½-by-11-inch sheets of paper.
We coffee’d in a park, we found a stream and pond for lunch and for Mike Roberts to shoot Stanley’s siphoning water and sort of bumped and lazed along on roads with Brete Hart and Mark Twain names.
“At least my parents stick around!” I said back as I paced. I instantly regretted my comeback but that’s the thing about unkind words: You can try to undo the damage, but (a) it’s hard when you’re all coffee-ed up, and (b) you can’t take it back, ever.
They had been at the HyVee deli that night, coffee’ed up and continuing a late night discussion of angels on the heads of pins, or whatever Episcopalians discuss, three wise men who had walked out of the HyVee to enjoy the warm September air,[…].
The country club where we coffee’d was hushed, even desolate on a rainy morning—the dark woods you would expect, the sweet selection of teas.
Stopped at a 7/eleven, coffee-ed up, washed down four dex, hit the Interstate.
It was exactly 11 a.m. We had been coffeeing for one hour, and our coffee cups were empty.
Very little was spoken as they coffee-ed up and she cut the peppers.
Woke to Ravel’s Pavane For Dead Princess, / Coffee-ed with Simone’s I Get Along Without You Very Well – of course I do.
I, myself, have been awake since three, dressed since four, coffee-ed up since five.
“Hi! Didn’t think you would be coffee-ing again. Out and about so soon after your op?”
Well, one morning after I had coffee-ed up and went to fork hay into the corrals, I spied a rider.
From my base camp, I went to Mommy & Me groups, applied to exclusive music classes, wrangled with nannies, coffee’d with other mothers, and “auditioned” at preschools, for my firstborn son and then his little brother.
Madelyn was awake around 6:30 but she was only six months old and had not yet developed pre-Christmas excitement; Michael got her changed and bottled up (and himself coffee-ed up) well before anybody else stirred.
‘Especially when it’s something you can’t change, looking to where someone else is and trying to compare is only going to make you feel that sense of crushing disappointment, or feeling like you’re so far away from what you would have ideally wanted,’ says Cassie Mendoza-Jones, the kinesiologist we coffee’d with in Chapter 7.
“[…]The two of you should get together for coffee one of these days. I’ll introduce you after the service.” “Sure, Gran,” Sophie said easily, well used to these monthly matchmaking efforts. Ealing was in fact rather far, and frankly she had no intention of coffee-ing with Mark Bloom either way, but she’d long learned it was best just to nod along with her grandmother’s non-stop attempts to marry her off.
I am glad you didn’t yell at me when I dinged your car, I am glad you taught me to cook for large groups, I am glad that we coffee’d until all hours.
Three Ladies, Three Lattes: Still coffee-ing after all these years
gloss: To give coffee to.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The association of veteran firemen, which has a membership of 200, kept open house for New Year callers, and all comers were bountifully sandwiched and coffeed.
Here at Camp Wheeler we “coffeed” and “sandwiched” the drafted men when they came from Camp Gordon several weeks ago, and the men from Camp Pike more recently.
There we were met by enterprising citizens and coffeed and sandwiched by pretty girls.
Five soldiers had been sandwiched and coffeed at the Elks canteen, were a little short of money, needed haircuts.
I write this on the kitchen table at the home of the kind Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Ebert, who sandwiched and coffee’d me.
Mrs. Robert (Helen) Adickes, of Flintridge, mate of the chairman of the Pilots For Goldwater committee, was in there pitching as usual seeing that everyone was fed and coffeed or, in the case of the young colts and fillies, sandwiched and popped.
Ray Hughes and Shirley and Martin Johnson, new owners of “John and Mable’s, “coffeed” me and listened to my story.
Hostesses like Laurie McCormack, who’s used to keeping politicians, press and businessmen coffeed and sandwiched on special visits to the train, sat back and let Jay Montague and other merchants reverse roles.
“In the daytimes, he fixes things for people,” I said, “and in return they keep him sandwiched and coffeed.”
They fed him and coffee’d him and kept him talking until his throat was sore and it had been long dark for hours.
That afternoon at the House Rock Valley Store, the time John Schoppmann coffeed me and Bob,[…]
You all fed me and coffee’d me and warmed me up.
Synonyms: color
coffee
jamoke
java
joe
Related words: caffeine
:Category:Coffee
kaffeeklatsch
arabica
café au lait
café crème
café noir
cafeteria
caffè americano
caffè corretto
caffè freddo
cappuccino
coffea
decaf
demitasse
espresso
espresso breve
flat white
frappuccino
java
latte
long black
macchiato
mocha
mochaccino
robusta
short black
speedball
Tia Maria
Derived words: anticoffee
Arabian coffee
black coffee
bulletproof coffee
calypso coffee
chicory coffee
civet coffee
coffee-and
coffee and cake
coffee and cakes
coffee au lait
coffee bag
coffee bar
coffee bean
coffee berry
coffeeberry
coffee bowl
coffee break
coffee bush
coffee cabinet
coffee cake
Coffee Camp
Coffee Club Island
coffee culture
coffee-cup
coffee cup
coffee essence
coffee extract
coffee glass
coffee-glass
coffee grinder
coffee ground
coffee grounds
coffee ground vomiting
coffee ground vomitus
coffeegrower
coffeegrowing
coffeehead
coffeeholic
coffeehouse
coffee house
coffee-house
coffee-kettle
coffee-klatch
coffee klatch
coffee klatsch
coffee-klatsch
coffee leaf rust
coffeeless
coffeelike
coffee liqueur
coffee machine
coffee-maker
coffeemaker
coffee maker
coffeemaking
coffee making
coffee-man
coffee man
coffeeman
coffee milk
coffee-mill
coffee mill
coffee moffie
coffee money
coffee morning
coffee palace
coffee pause
coffee plunger
coffee pod
coffee pot
coffee-pot
coffee potful
coffee-potful
coffee ring
coffee ring effect
coffee roll
coffee-room
coffee room
coffeeroom
coffee royal
coffee rust
coffee senna
coffee shop
coffee snake
coffee spoon
coffee stain effect
coffee syrup
coffee table
coffee table book
coffee-table book
coffee talk
coffeetime
coffeetini
coffee tree
coffee up
Coffeeville
coffeeware
coffeewoman
coffolate
cold brew coffee
cold-brew coffee
cold coffee
cowboy coffee
cream in one's coffee
cup of coffee
dalgona coffee
dandelion coffee
drip coffee
egg coffee
filter coffee
French coffee
Gaelic coffee
ice coffee
iced coffee
instant coffee
Irish coffee
Kentucky coffeetree
Mogdad coffee
noncoffee
power coffee
regular coffee
salt coffee
Scotch coffee
specialty coffee
suspended coffee
that and a dollar will get you a cup of coffee
that and a nickel will buy you a cup of coffee
that and twenty-five cents will get you a cup of coffee
third-wave coffee
Turkish coffee
variegated coffee bug
Vietnamese coffee
wake up and smell the coffee
white coffee
without coffee
Translations:
lang: Afar
word: bun
lang: Afrikaans
word: koffieboon
lang: Alabama
word: kafi
lang: Arabic
word: بُنّ
roman: bunn
lang: Arabic
word: بُنّ
roman: bunn
lang: Arapaho
word: woo'oteeyou'u
lang: Armenian
word: սուրճ
roman: surč
lang: Armenian
word: սրճահատիկ
roman: srčahatik
lang: Bashkir
word: кофе
roman: kofe
lang: Bashkir
word: ҡәһүә
roman: qəhwə
lang: Betawi
word: biji kupi
lang: Central Bikol
word: kape
lang: Bulgarian
word: кафе́
roman: kafé
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 咖啡豆
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 咖啡豆
roman: kāfēidòu
lang: Danish
word: kaffebønne
lang: Dutch
word: koffie
lang: Dutch
word: koffieboon
lang: Estonian
word: kohvioad
lang: Finnish
word: kahvipapu
lang: French
word: café
lang: Georgian
word: ყავის მარცვლები
roman: q̇avis marcvlebi
lang: German
word: Kaffebohne
lang: German
word: Kaffee
lang: Greek
word: καφές
roman: kafés
lang: Gujarati
word: બુંદદાણા
roman: bunddāṇā
lang: Hebrew
word: פולי קפה
roman: poléi qafé
lang: Hindi
word: कहवा
roman: kahvā
lang: Huichol
word: capé
lang: Hungarian
word: kávébab
lang: Icelandic
word: kaffibaun
lang: Ido
word: kafeo
lang: Indonesian
word: biji kopi
lang: Italian
word: chicco di caffè
lang: Japanese
word: コーヒー豆
roman: kōhī mame
lang: Korean
word: 커피콩
roman: keopikong
lang: Meru
word: kaua
lang: Mongolian
word: боргол
roman: borgol
lang: Nahuatl
word: cafēnyōlli
lang: Nahuatl
word: capejyōloj
lang: Nyole (Uganda)
word: emwanyi
lang: Oromo
word: qishira
lang: Plautdietsch
word: Boonekoffe
lang: Plautdietsch
word: Koffeboon
lang: Polish
word: ziarna kawy
lang: Polish
word: kawa
lang: Portuguese
word: café
lang: Romanian
word: cafea
lang: Russian
word: кофе́йное зерно́
roman: koféjnoje zernó
lang: Saho
word: buun
lang: Spanish
word: grano de café
lang: Spanish
word: café
lang: Swahili
word: kahawa
lang: Tamil
word: குளம்பிக் கொட்டை
roman: kuḷampik koṭṭai
lang: Taos
word: kopháne
lang: Thai
word: เมล็ดกาแฟ
roman: má-lét gaa-fɛɛ
lang: Vietnamese
word: hột cà phê
lang: Vietnamese
word: hạt cà phê
lang: Welsh
word: ffa coffi
lang: Afrikaans
word: koffiekleurig
lang: Armenian
word: սրճագույն
roman: srčaguyn
lang: Central Bikol
word: kape
lang: Bulgarian
word: кафе́
roman: kafé
lang: Catalan
word: cafè
lang: Catalan
word: marró
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 咖啡色
roman: gaa³ fe¹ sik¹
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 啡色
roman: fe¹ sik¹
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 咖啡色
roman: kāfēisè
lang: Crimean Tatar
word: qave renki
lang: Dutch
word: mokka
lang: Dutch
word: koffiebruin
lang: Estonian
word: kohvipruun
lang: Finnish
word: kahvinruskea
lang: German
word: Kaffeebraun
lang: German
word: Kaffeefarbe
lang: Greek
word: καφέ
roman: kafé
lang: Hebrew
word: קפה
roman: qafé
lang: Hungarian
word: kávébarna
lang: Icelandic
word: kaffibrúnn
lang: Ido
word: kafeea
lang: Italian
word: caffè
lang: Japanese
word: コーヒー色
roman: kōhī-iro
lang: Korean
word: 커피색
roman: keopisaek
lang: Central Kurdish
word: قاوەیی
roman: qaweyî
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: qehweyî
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: qaweyî
lang: Malay
word: kopi
lang: Mapudungun
word: kolv
lang: Polish
word: kawowy
lang: Portuguese
word: café
lang: Romanian
word: cafeniu
lang: Russian
word: кофе́йный
roman: koféjnyj
lang: Russian
word: кофе́йный цвет
roman: koféjnyj cvet
lang: Russian
word: ко́фе
roman: kófe
lang: Russian
word: цвет ко́фе
roman: cvet kófe
lang: Spanish
word: café
lang: Swahili
word: kahawa
lang: Tagalog
word: kape
lang: Tsimané
word: khafe
lang: Tsimané
word: tyɨ̈̈ñfɨ̈y'
lang: Vietnamese
word: màu cà phê
lang: Volapük
word: kafabraun
lang: Volapük
word: kafaköl
lang: Zazaki
word: qahwe