“Coffee, the favorite drink of the civilized world.” – Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States
COLLING
Etymology
From medieval diminutives of the given names Cole and Coll.
Proper noun
Colling
A patronymic surname.
Noun
colling (uncountable)
The act of colling; hugging or embracing.
Verb
colling
present participle of coll.
Source: Wiktionary
Coll"ing, n. Etym: [From Coll, v. t.]
Definition: An embrace; dalliance. [Obs.] Halliwell.
COLL
Coll, v. t. Etym: [OF. coler, fr. L. collum neck.]
Definition: To embrace. [Obs.] "They coll and kiss him." Latimer.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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INITIALISM
(noun) an abbreviation formed from the initial letters of the several words in the name and pronounced separately; “HTML is an initialism for HyperText Markup Language”
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