MELTON

Proper noun

Melton

A surname.

The Borough of Melton, a local government district in Leicestershire, England, formed in 1974, with its headquarters in Melton Mowbray.

A village in East Suffolk district, Suffolk, England (OS grid ref TM2850)

Anagrams

• loment, molten, tolmen

Etymology

Noun

melton (countable and uncountable, plural meltons)

A tough, short-napped material used for making overcoats.

Anagrams

• loment, molten, tolmen

Source: Wiktionary


Mel"ton, Etym: [Etymol. uncertain.]

Definition: A kind of stout woolen cloth with unfinished face and without raised nap. A commoner variety has a cotton warp.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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6 June 2025

PUNGENCY

(noun) wit having a sharp and caustic quality; “he commented with typical pungency”; “the bite of satire”


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According to Guinness World Records, the most massive cup of coffee contained 22,739.14 liters and was created by Alcaldía Municipal de Chinchiná (Colombia) at Parque de Bolívar, Chinchiná, Caldas, Colombia, on 15 June 2019. Fifty people worked for more than a month to build this giant cup. The drink prepared was Arabic coffee.

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