Irish coffee
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- noun
- /ˈaɪrɪʃ ˈkɔfi/
:
café irlandés
- Everyone at the party loved the warm Irish coffee I prepared for them.
- Irish coffee, please
- make Irish coffee
- Irish coffee mug
For example, you take Irish coffee.
- For example, you take Irish coffee.
- We'd just be all like hopped up on, you know, Irish coffees.
Examples
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Alice ordered an Irish coffee, and Jerome ordered bourbon.
Fiction book (1994) -
Thank you for a wonderful opera and wonderful Irish coffee.
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Irish coffee is supposed to be hot.
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I can make an Irish coffee, if you'd like.
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You make Irish coffee with coffee, sugar, and whiskey, with whipped cream on top.
Fiction book (1990) -
After the workmen had gone for the day, and Gil and Maudy had left, Maggie and Claire sat on the veranda, sipping Irish coffees.
Fiction book (1997) -
After dinner, I ordered an Irish coffee to enjoy while relaxing by the fireplace.
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To make a delicious Irish coffee, combine hot coffee, Irish whiskey, sugar, and top it with whipped cream.
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The noun phrase is a straightforward adjective + noun composition: a B1 learner who knows 'Irish' (pertaining to Ireland) and 'coffee' will infer it denotes a coffee associated with Ireland or made in an Irish style. While the exact recipe (whiskey and whipped cream) is not predictable from the words alone, the overall referent—a type of coffee with an Irish connection—is transparently derivable from the constituents.
Etymology
Irish coffee may come from a 1940s Irish airport where a cook mixed hot coffee, Irish whiskey, and whipped cream to warm cold travelers. That's why the name points to coffee with Irish whiskey and cream that helps you 'warm up'.