coffeey

/ˈkɒfiːi/

coffeey adjective: resembling coffee.

Adjective

coffeey (comparative more coffeey, superlative most coffeey)

(informal, nonstandard) Resembling coffee.
- Take a typical paper hot-drink cup. Add a scoop (probably the equivalent of 3-4 tsp) of sugar. Fill the cup about 1/3 to 2/5 full with chocolate chips. Fill to the brim with nice hot coffee. Let it sit for a few minutes, then stir it a little, and drink it. You get this chocolatey-coffeey taste...1998 September 18, Lari, the Teenage Goddess of Heavenly Bodies and Brownies, “Big, Fuzzy Dollies”, in alt.tv.animaniacs (Usenet)
- You need to bear in mind that flavours are muted at low temperatures. Mixes for sorbets and ice-creams should therefore, in their unfrozen state, taste a little too sweet, a little too sharp, and a little too fruity (if that's possible). By the same token, chocolate ice-creams should be very...2001, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, The River Cottage Cookbook, HarperCollinsIllustrated, →ISBN, page 126

You get this chocolatey-coffeey taste, then you get to the inch or so of chocolate that didn't mix with the coffee, which looks horrible but which you eat with a spoon.1998 September 18, Lari, the Teenage Goddess of Heavenly Bodies and Brownies, “Big, Fuzzy Dollies”, in alt.tv.animaniacs (Usenet):
By the same token, chocolate ice-creams should be very chocolatey and coffee ones very coffeey.2001, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, The River Cottage Cookbook, HarperCollinsIllustrated, →ISBN, page 126:
But restaurants mostly buy dark roast stuff - i.e. incinerated beans of poorer quality which taste mostly of burnt, with a vaguely coffeey after taste meant to fool the throngs.2001 June 20, Cat, “10 Things I Love About Ireland”, in soc.culture.irish (Usenet):

comparative	more coffeey
superlative	most coffeey

From coffee + -y.

What does coffeey mean?: Coffeey means resembling coffee.
How do you use coffeey in a sentence?: You get this chocolatey-coffeey taste, then you get to the inch or so of chocolate that didn't mix with the coffee, which looks horrible but which you eat with a spoon.
What part of speech is coffeey?: Coffeey is an adjective.
How do you pronounce coffeey?: Coffeey is pronounced /ˈkɒfiːi/.

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