The expression “coffee break” was first attested in 1952 in glossy magazine advertisements by the Pan-American Coffee Bureau.
stickybeak (plural stickybeaks)
(Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) An overly inquisitive person, a nosey parker.
(Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) An act of looking at or watching something, especially something which does not directly concern the one looking.
• (overly inquisitive person): nosey parker, snoop
• (act of looking): look-see
stickybeak (third-person singular simple present stickybeaks, present participle stickybeaking, simple past and past participle stickybeaked)
(Australia, New Zealand) To pry or snoop.
Source: Wiktionary
10 January 2025
(noun) the act of combining one thing at intervals among other things; “the interspersion of illustrations in the text”
The expression “coffee break” was first attested in 1952 in glossy magazine advertisements by the Pan-American Coffee Bureau.