SWASHY

Adjective

swashy (comparative more swashy, superlative most swashy)

(informal) swashbuckling

(UK, dialect) soft like overripe fruit

Source: Wiktionary


Swash"y, a.

Definition: Soft, like fruit that is too ripe; quashy; swash. [Prov. Eng.]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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TRUNCATION

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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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