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.
ROASTIE
Etymology
Noun
roastie (plural roasties)
(pejorative, internet slang, incel slang, vulgar) A woman, especially a promiscuous one.
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(slang) A roast potato.
Usage notes
• Often used as an insult for women by some incels.
Anagrams
• areítos, osteria, otaries, triaose
Source: Wiktionary
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ENDLESSLY
(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”
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