Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A casual social gathering for coffee and conversation.
Wiktionary
- n. A social gathering for conversation while drinking coffee
Etymologies
- coffee + klatch, a calque of German Kaffeeklatsch; properly, partial calque, borrowing klatch rather than fully calquing as “coffee gossip”. (Wiktionary)
- Partial translation of German Kaffeeklatsch : Kaffee, coffee + Klatsch, gossip; see klatch. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
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coffee phrases
how coffee is used
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Tricky Words from German
Loanwords from German -- some established, some wet behind the ears -- that are difficult to spell, pronounce, or remember.
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Words from German
Germanic loans to English
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