In 1884, Angelo Moriondo of Turin, Italy, demonstrated the first working example of an espresso machine.
COCKAL
Cock"al, n. Etym: [Etymol. uncertain.]
1. A game played with sheep's bones instead of dice [Obs.]
2. The bone used in playing the game; -- called also huckle bone. [Obs.] Nares. A little transverse bone Which boys and bruckeled children call (Playing for points and pins) cockal. Herrick.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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BOORISH
(adjective) ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance; “was boorish and insensitive”; “the loutish manners of a bully”; “her stupid oafish husband”; “aristocratic contempt for the swinish multitude”
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