Decaffeinated coffee comes from a chemical process that takes out caffeine from the beans. Pharmaceutical and soda companies buy the extracted caffeine.
QUITTER
quitter
(noun) a person who gives up too easily
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Noun
quitter (uncountable)
(now rare, outside, Jamaica) Matter flowing from a wound or sore; pus.
(farriery) A fistulous wound at the top of a horse's foot resulting from bruises, pricks, or neglected corns.
(obsolete) Scoria of tin.
Verb
quitter (third-person singular simple present quitters, present participle quittering, simple past and past participle quittered)
To suppurate; ooze with pus.
Etymology 2
Noun
quitter (plural quitters)
One who quits.
(obsolete) A deliverer.
Source: Wiktionary
Quit"ter, n.
1. One who quits.
2. A deliverer. [Obs.] Ainsworth.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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(noun) small asexual fruiting body resembling a cushion or blister consisting of a mat of hyphae that is produced on a host by some fungi
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