SPECCY

Etymology

Proper noun

Speccy

(informal) The Spectator, a British current-affairs magazine.

Noun

Speccy (plural Speccies)

(computing, colloquial, chiefly UK) A Sinclair ZX Spectrum computer.

Adjective

speccy (not comparable)

(colloquial, pejorative) bespectacled

Noun

speccy (plural speccies)

(Australian rules football, informal) synonym of spectacular mark

Source: Wiktionary



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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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