SLUICY

Etymology

Adjective

sluicy (comparative more sluicy, superlative most sluicy)

Falling copiously or in streams, as if from a sluice.

Source: Wiktionary


Slui`cy, a.

Definition: Falling copiously or in streams, as from a sluice. And oft whole sheets descend of sluicy rain. Dryden.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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25 December 2024

UNAMBIGUOUS

(adjective) having or exhibiting a single clearly defined meaning; “As a horror, apartheid...is absolutely unambiguous”- Mario Vargas Llosa


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Coffee Trivia

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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