In 1511, leaders in Mecca believed coffee stimulated radical thinking and outlawed the drink. In 1524, the leaders overturned that order, and people could drink coffee again.
OOMPAH
Noun
oompah (plural oompahs)
Alternative spelling of oom-pah
Verb
oompah (third-person singular simple present oompahs, present participle oompahing, simple past and past participle oompahed)
(transitive) To produce an oom-pah sound.
Source: Wiktionary
Recent Word Finds
Word of the Day
22 February 2025
ANALYSIS
(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride’s father’
Coffee Trivia
