The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
MULE
mule
(noun) hybrid offspring of a male donkey and a female horse; usually sterile
mule, scuff
(noun) a slipper that has no fitting around the heel
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Noun
mule (plural mules)
The generally sterile male or female hybrid offspring of a male donkey and a female horse.
The generally sterile hybrid offspring of any two species of animals.
(dated) A hybrid plant.
(informal) A stubborn person.
(slang) A person paid to smuggle drugs.
(numismatics) A coin or medal minted with obverse and reverse designs not normally seen on the same piece, either intentionally or in error.
(RPG) A MMORPG character, or NPC companion in a tabletop RPG, used mainly to store extra inventory for the owner's primary character.
Any of a group of cocktails involving ginger ale or ginger beer, citrus juice, and various liquors.
(sailing) A kind of triangular sail for a yacht.
A kind of cotton-spinning machine.
Synonyms
• (sterile hybrid of donkey and horse): Missouri canary
• See also stubborn person
Verb
mule (third-person singular simple present mules, present participle muling, simple past and past participle muled)
(transitive, slang) To smuggle (illegal drugs).
Etymology 2
Noun
mule (plural mules)
A shoe that has no fitting or strap around the heel, but which covers the foot.
Proper noun
Mule (plural Mules)
A surname.
Statistics
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Mule is the 19027th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1431 individuals. Mule is most common among White (90.36%) individuals.
Source: Wiktionary
Mule, n. Etym: [F., a she-mule, L. mula, fem. of mulus; cf. Gr. m, fr. L. mulus. Cf. Mulatto.]
1. (Zoöl.)
Definition: A hybrid animal; specifically, one generated between an ass and a mare, sometimes a horse and a she-ass. See Hinny.
Note: Mules are much used as draught animals. They are hardy, and proverbial for stubbornness.
2. (Bot.)
Definition: A plant or vegetable produced by impregnating the pistil of one species with the pollen or fecundating dust of another; -- called also hybrid.
3. A very stubborn person.
4. A machine, used in factories, for spinning cotton, wool, etc., into yarn or thread and winding it into cops; -- called also jenny and mule-jenny. Mule armadillo (Zoöl.), a long-eared armadillo (Tatusia hybrida), native of Buenos Ayres; -- called also mulita. See Illust. under Armadillo.
– Mule deer (Zoöl.), a large deer (Cervus, or Cariacus, macrotis) of the Western United States. The name refers to its long ears.
– Mule pulley (Mach.), an idle pulley for guiding a belt which transmits motion between shafts that are not parallel.
– Mule twist, cotton yarn in cops, as spun on a mule; -- in distinction from yarn spun on a throstle frame.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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