According to WorldAtlas, Finland is the biggest coffee consumer in the entire world. The average Finn will consume 12 kg of coffee each year.
MISFIRE
miss, misfire
(noun) a failure to hit (or meet or find etc)
misfire, dud
(noun) an explosion that fails to occur
misfire
(verb) fail to fire or detonate; “The guns misfired”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
misfire (plural misfires)
An act of misfiring.
Verb
misfire (third-person singular simple present misfires, present participle misfiring, simple past and past participle misfired)
(firearm) To fail to discharge properly.
(of an engine) To fail to ignite in the proper sequence.
(by extension) To fail to achieve the anticipated result.
Source: Wiktionary
Recent Word Finds
Word of the Day
24 December 2024
INTUITIVELY
(adverb) in an intuitive manner; “inventors seem to have chosen intuitively a combination of explosive and aggressive sounds as warning signals to be used on automobiles”
Coffee Trivia
