POPSICLE

Etymology

Noun

popsicle (plural popsicles)

(chiefly US, Canada) Frozen fruit juice, flavored sugar water, or the like, on a stick, of a size to be one serving.

(figuratively) Something cold or frozen.

Synonyms

• ice pop

• ice lolly (UK)

• icy pole (Australia)

Etymology

Epsicle ice pop, from the surname of Frank Epperson, its inventor, + icicle; the inventor's children renamed it popsicle, from (soda) pop.

Noun

Popsicle (plural Popsicles)

A type of ice lolly.

Source: Wiktionary



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7 November 2024

ERASE

(verb) remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing; “Please erase the formula on the blackboard--it is wrong!”


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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.

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