brickbat
(noun) blunt criticism
brickbat
(noun) a fragment of brick used as a weapon
Source: WordNet® 3.1
brickbat (plural brickbats)
A piece of brick used as a weapon, especially if thrown, or placed in something like a sock and used as a club.
A criticism or uncomplimentary remark.
brickbat (third-person singular simple present brickbats, present participle brickbatting, simple past and past participle brickbatted)
(transitive) To attack by throwing brickbats.
(transitive, figurative) To assail with criticism.
Source: Wiktionary
Brick"bat`, n.
Definition: A piece or fragment of a brick. See Bat, 4. Bacon.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
3 February 2025
(adjective) possessed by inordinate excitement; “the crowd went crazy”; “was crazy to try his new bicycle”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
