The expression ācoffee breakā was first attested in 1952 in glossy magazine advertisements by the Pan-American Coffee Bureau.
GLOOMING
glooming, gloomy, gloomful, sulky
(adjective) depressingly dark; āthe gloomy forestā; āthe glooming interior of an old innā; āāgloomfulā is archaicā
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Verb
glooming
present participle of gloom
Etymology 2
Noun
glooming (plural gloomings)
Twilight of morning or evening; the gloaming.
Gloomy behaviour; melancholy.
Synonyms
• (twilight): crepuscule, twilight, vespers; see also twilight
• (gloomy behaviour): misery, sadness, sorrow, woe
Source: Wiktionary
Gloom"ing, n. Etym: [Cf. Gloaming.]
Definition: Twilight (of morning or evening); the gloaming. When the faint glooming in the sky First lightened into day. Trench. The balmy glooming, crescent-lit. Tennyson.
GLOOM
Gloom (gloom), n. Etym: [AS. glom twilight, from the root of E. glow. See Glow, and cf. Glum, Gloam.]
1. Partial or total darkness; thick shade; obscurity; as, the gloom of a forest, or of midnight.
2. A shady, gloomy, or dark place or grove. Before a gloom of stubborn-shafted oaks. Tennyson .
3. Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow; low spirits; dullness. A sullen gloom and furious disorder prevailed by fits. Burke.
4. In gunpowder manufacture, the drying oven.
Syn.
– Darkness; dimness; obscurity; heaviness; dullness; depression; melancholy; dejection; sadness. See Darkness.
Gloom, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Gloomed; p. pr. & vb. n. Glooming.]
1. To shine or appear obscurely or imperfectly; to glimmer.
2. To become dark or dim; to be or appear dismal, gloomy, or sad; to come to the evening twilight. The black gibbet glooms beside the way. Goldsmith. [This weary day] . . . at last I see it gloom. Spenser.
Gloom, v. t.
1. To render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken. A bow window . . . gloomed with limes. Walpole. A black yew gloomed the stagnant air. Tennyson.
2. To fill with gloom; to make sad, dismal, or sullen. Such a mood as that which lately gloomed Your fancy. Tennison. What sorrows gloomed that parting day. Goldsmith.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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