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.
POXES
Noun
poxes
plural of pox
Anagrams
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Source: Wiktionary
POX
Pox, n. Etym: [For pocks, OE. pokkes. See Pock. It is plural in form but is used as a singular.] (Med.)
Definition: Strictly, a disease by pustules or eruptions of any kind, but chiefly or wholly restricted to three or four diseases, -- the smallpox, the chicken pox, and the vaccine and the venereal diseases.
Note: Pox, when used without an epithet, as in imprecations, formerly signified smallpox; but it now signifies syphilis.
Pox, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Poxed; p. pr. & vb. n. Poxing.]
Definition: To infect with the pox, or syphilis.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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