In 1884, Angelo Moriondo of Turin, Italy, demonstrated the first working example of an espresso machine.
PARP
Etymology
Imitative.
Interjection
parp
(informal) Representing the sound of a car horn, a trumpet, or breaking wind.
Noun
parp (plural parps)
(informal) The sound of a car horn, a trumpet, or breaking wind.
Verb
parp (third-person singular simple present parps, present participle parping, simple past and past participle parped)
(informal, transitive) To sound a car horn.
(informal, intransitive) To make the sound of a car horn.
(informal, intransitive) To break wind.
(informal) To talk nonsense.
Anagrams
• PAPR, Rapp, appr, appr.
Noun
PARP (countable and uncountable, plural PARPs)
(biology) Initialism of polyADP-ribose polymerase.
Anagrams
• PAPR, Rapp, appr, appr.
Source: Wiktionary
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