coffee grounds
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1.8
- noun
- /ˈkɔːfi ɡraʊndz/
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posos de café
- Two large coffee chains, Peet's Coffee and Tea and Starbucks, are diverting their coffee grounds and tea leaves away from landfills and into compost bins.
Who knew you could bake a cake with coffee grounds?
- Who knew you could bake a cake with coffee grounds?
- So many people worry when they add coffee grounds and they ask, is adding coffee grounds going to change the pH of my soil?
- Swings creaked and shadows leapt like sheep over fence railings, the air redolent of damp coffee grounds and worms.
- You're going to have to reapply those stale coffee grounds about once every three weeks because you know you don't.
Examples
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So I poured the coffee grounds into a bowl and looked for the filters.
Blog text (30) -
I try to read the coffee grounds I'm left with.
Fiction book (1992) -
Meanwhile, my coffee grounds will cool down and dry out.
Fiction book (1999) -
We need some honey, coffee grounds, coconut oil, sugar.
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But I found coffee grounds in the warehouse.
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I put some coffee grounds in my worm bin this morning.
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Seven Peet's Coffee and Tea stores in Berkeley and Oakland, California, generate five tons of coffee grounds and tea leaves each week.
Academic text (1999) -
Included are coffee grounds, by-products from the dairy, pharmaceutical and food processing industries, cotton gin trash, etc.
Academic text (1996) -
After brewing a fresh pot, I scooped the used coffee grounds into the compost bin.
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Every morning, I save my coffee grounds to use as a natural fertilizer for my garden.
Synonyms
11
3.5
Small coffee or tea bits left at the bottom of a cup
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'particles of ground coffee remaining after brewing' is directly and compositionally derived from combining 'coffee' (the beverage/beans) with 'grounds' (residual solid particles). This straightforward noun + noun compound is cross-linguistically common and follows predictable English compounding patterns, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will understand it.
Etymology
Coffee grounds names the small bits left after making coffee: coffee beans are ground into tiny pieces—the grounds—and the hot water takes the flavour, leaving those 'leftover' particles. So, coffee grounds means the used coffee bits that people often put on plants or throw away.