UNIDIOMATICALLY

Etymology

Adverb

unidiomatically (comparative more unidiomatically, superlative most unidiomatically)

In an unidiomatic way.

[…] a curious little extract from an Athenian letter which appeared in the 'Globe' of Friday last, apparently either written in English by a Greek, or translated into English unidiomatically, and with manifest traces of a foreign original.

Source: Wiktionary


UNIDIOMATIC

An*id`io*mat"ic*al, a. Etym: [Gr. idiomatical.]

Definition: Not idiomatic. [R.] Landor.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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(adjective) having relatively few calories; “diet cola”; “light (or lite) beer”; “lite (or light) mayonnaise”; “a low-cal diet”


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Coffee Trivia

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.

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