coffee

noun

1. 1

   A beverage made by infusing the beans of the coffee plant in hot water.

   He and his friends used to order coffee whenever they went out.

   The Turks have a drink called coffa (for they use no wine), so named of a berry as black as soot, and as bitter[…], which they sip still of, and sup as warm as they can suffer[…].

   VVhat a devil makes thee in ſo muſty a humour? Thou art as dull and dumpiſh as a fellovv that had been drunk over night vvith Ale, and had done nothing but drunk Coffee, talked Politicks, and read Gazettes all this morning.

   The great use of coffee in France is supposed to have abated the prevalency of the gravel, for where coffee is used as a constant beverage, the gravel and the gout are scarcely known.

2. 2

   A serving of this beverage.

   As I sip a coffee at Brasserie Balzar, two well-known intellectuals, one publisher and a Sorbonne professor were discussing Sarkozy's future: "He won't finish his mandate" says one.

3. 3

   The seeds of the plant used to make coffee, called ‘beans’ due to their shape.

4. 4

   The powder made by roasting and grinding the seeds.

5. 5

   A tropical plant of the genus Coffea.

6. 6

   A pale brown color, like that of milky coffee.

7. 7

   The end of a meal, when coffee is served.

   He did not stay for coffee.

adjective

1. 1

   Of a pale brown colour, like that of milk coffee.

2. 2

   Of a table: a small, low table suitable for people in lounge seating to put coffee cups on.

verb

1. 1

   To drink coffee.

   I rushed into my cabin, coffeed, wined, and went to bed sobbing.

   In the afternoon with Hilda and suite in three Einspänner to just beyond Pontresina; we got out and crossed the bridge over the Bernina to Sans Souci Café, where we coffee'''’d.

   We had coffee’d with the scoundrel[…]

   Mr. and Mrs. Ted Craig (he^([sic]) speaker of the assembly) emerging from a popular drive-in after having sandwiched and coffeed . . .

2. 2

   To give coffee to.

   The association of veteran firemen, which has a membership of 200, kept open house for New Year callers, and all comers were bountifully sandwiched and coffeed.

   Here at Camp Wheeler we “coffeed” and “sandwiched” the drafted men when they came from Camp Gordon several weeks ago, and the men from Camp Pike more recently.

   There we were met by enterprising citizens and coffeed and sandwiched by pretty girls.

   Five soldiers had been sandwiched and coffeed at the Elks canteen, were a little short of money, needed haircuts.

Forms

plural

coffees

past tense

coffeed, coffee'd

past participle

coffeed, coffee'd

present participle

coffeeing

third person singular

coffees