coffee klatch

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈkɒfi klætʃ/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A social gathering for conversation while drinking coffee.
    — Recently, on a wintry Sunday, some 2,500 white Chicago area residents embarked on a strange safari across the city, determined to do what most of them had never done before—visit a Negro home. Eager to purge themselves of ignorance about the city's "other half," they were participants in Interracial Home Visit Day, a "Coffee Klatsch" co-sponsored by local Catholic, Jewish and Protestant groups in an effort to eliminate racial bigotry and hate.
动词 v.
  1. To meet to gossip with friends, often over coffee. informal,intransitive
    — The upshot of this incessant meeting and dining and coffee klatching is that women are in great demand.

词形变化

coffee klatches plural coffee klatsch alternative coffee-klatch alternative coffee-klatsch alternative coffee klatches present,singular,third-person coffee klatching participle,present coffee klatched participle,past coffee klatched past coffee klatsch alternative coffee-klatch alternative coffee-klatsch alternative

词源

词源 1
Partial calque of German Kaffeeklatsch.
词源 2
Partial calque of German Kaffeeklatsch.
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