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.
SPIKEFISH
Etymology
Noun
spikefish (plural spikefishes or spikefish)
The sailfish.
Source: Wiktionary
Spike"fish`, n. (Zoöl.)
Definition: See Sailfish (a)
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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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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