In 1884, Angelo Moriondo of Turin, Italy, demonstrated the first working example of an espresso machine.
BECUDGEL
Etymology
Verb
becudgel (third-person singular simple present becudgels, present participle becudgelling or becudgeling, simple past and past participle becudgelled or becudgeled)
(transitive) To cudgel thoroughly or soundly.
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ENDLESSLY
(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”
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