There are more than 50 countries that export coffee. They are near the equator, where the climate is conducive to producing coffee beans.
BESHREW
curse, beshrew, damn, bedamn, anathemize, anathemise, imprecate, maledict
(verb) wish harm upon; invoke evil upon; “The bad witch cursed the child”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
beshrew (third-person singular simple present beshrews, present participle beshrewing, simple past and past participle beshrewed)
(transitive, archaic) To invoke or wish evil upon; to curse.
(transitive) An imperative uttered as a mildly imprecatory or merely expletive introductory exclamation.
Anagrams
• Hebrews, Shebrew
Source: Wiktionary
Be*shrew", v. t.
Definition: To curse; to execrate. Beshrew me, but I love her heartily. Shak.
Note: Often a very mild form of imprecation; sometimes so far from implying a curse, as to be uttered coaxingly, nay even with some tenderness. Schmidt.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
Word of the Day
26 November 2024
TRANSPOSITION
(noun) (music) playing in a different key from the key intended; moving the pitch of a piece of music upwards or downwards
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