Definition of Coffee grounds

1. Noun. The dregs remaining after brewing coffee.

Language type: Plural, Plural Form
Generic synonyms: Grounds

Lexicographical Neighbors of Coffee Grounds

coffee berry
coffee blight
coffee break
coffee breaks
coffee cake
coffee can
coffee capuccino
coffee cream
coffee culture
coffee cup
coffee fern
coffee filter
coffee fungus
coffee grinder
coffee grinders
coffee grounds (current term)
coffee house
coffee houses
coffee klatch
coffee klatches
coffee liqueur
coffee liqueurs
coffee machine
coffee maker
coffee makers
coffee mill
coffee morning
coffee mug
coffee pot
coffee pots

Literary usage of Coffee grounds

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. All about Coffee by William Harrison Ukers (1922)
"Remember that flavor, the only flavor worth having, is extracted hy the short contact of boiling water and coffee grounds and that after this flavor is ..."

2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1854)
"black and granular aspect with the coffee-grounds sediment, described as characteristic of black vomit, belongs particularly to the smaller portions which ..."

3. The Picayune Creole Cook Book (1922)
"Pour, first, about two tablespoonfuls of the boiling water on the coffee grounds, or. according to the quantity of coffee used, just sufficient to settle ..."

4. The pearl of the Antilles; or, An artist in Cuba by Walter Goodman (1873)
"coffee grounds OF CUBA. Going out of Town—On the Road—A Wayside Inn—A Cane Field—West- Indian Fruit Trees—The Arrival—A Dinner in the Country—The Evening ..."

5. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1854)
"DIVINATION BY, OR TOSSING OT, coffee grounds. I met with the following curious advertisement in the ... to which she added the secret of by coffee grounds. ..."

6. American Agriculturist (1848)
"The detection of spent coffee grounds is comparatively simple, and depends on the same mode of operation as in the case of ..."

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