mishap, misadventure, mischance
(noun) an instance of misfortune
Source: WordNet® 3.1
mishap (plural mishaps)
An accident, mistake, or problem.
Evil accident; ill luck; misfortune; mischance.
mishap (third-person singular simple present mishaps, present participle mishapping, simple past and past participle mishapped)
(archaic) To happen through misfortune; to mishappen.
Source: Wiktionary
Mis*hap", n.
Definition: Evil accident; ill luck; misfortune; mischance. Chaucer. Secure from worldly chances and mishaps. Shak.
Mis*hap", v. i.
Definition: To happen unluckily; -- used impersonally. [Obs.] "If that me mishap." Chaucer.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 February 2025
(noun) an advantageous purchase; “she got a bargain at the auction”; “the stock was a real buy at that price”
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.
