MINNIE

Etymology

Proper noun

Minnie

A diminutive of the female names Wilhelmina, Minerva, Mary, Mina and Mamie. Popular as a formal female given name in the 19th century.

(US, slang) Minneapolis.

Noun

minnie (plural minnies)

(obsolete, informal, Northern England) mother; mummy

Source: Wiktionary



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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.

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