Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world. Each year Brazil exports more than 44 million bags of coffee. Vietnam follows at exporting over 27 million bags each year.
MIZZLE
drizzle, mizzle
(noun) very light rain; stronger than mist but less than a shower
drizzle, mizzle
(verb) rain lightly; “When it drizzles in summer, hiking can be pleasant”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Verb
mizzle (third-person singular simple present mizzles, present participle mizzling, simple past and past participle mizzled)
(intransitive, now dialectal, UK, North America) To rain in very fine drops.
Synonym: drizzle
Noun
mizzle (uncountable)
Misty rain or drizzle.
Etymology 2
Verb
mizzle (third-person singular simple present mizzles, present participle mizzling, simple past and past participle mizzled)
(chiefly, British) To abscond, scram, flee.
(intransitive) To yield.
(transitive) To muddle or confuse. (Probably from a misreading of past tense/participle misled.)
Source: Wiktionary
Miz"zle, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Mizzled; p. pr. & vb. n. Mizzling.] Etym: [See Misle, and cf. Mistle.]
1. To rain in very fine drops. Spenser.
2. To take one's self off; to go. [Slang] As long as George the Fourth could reign, he reigned, And then he mizzled. Epigram, quoted by Wright.
Miz"zle, n.
Definition: Mist; fine rain.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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