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.
UPCURLED
Verb
upcurled
simple past tense and past participle of upcurl
Anagrams
• curled up
Source: Wiktionary
UPCURL
Up*curl", v. t.
Definition: To curl up. [R.] Tennyson.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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ANALYSIS
(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride’s father’
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