Definitions
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- noun trade mark for a coffee substitute invented by C. W. Post and made with chicory and roasted grains
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Examples
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Mrs. Martin used to empty her postum jar and fill it with Folgers Coffee, I guess thinking that she was fooling whoever was looking, which really wasn't anybody, maybe God, but wouldn't he have known anyway?
My life as a woman Roseanne, Barr 1989
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Coffee or postum with cream or sugar _or_ 10 ozs. skim milk
Diet and Health With Key to the Calories Lulu Hunt Peters
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Buttermilk is excellent, and so is postum, but the postum should be taken without sugar and used with hot skimmed milk, not cream.
The Art of Stage Dancing The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession Ned Wayburn
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Roast all to a rich coffee brown; grind and make as for postum.
From Captivity to Fame or The Life of George Washington Carver Raleigh Howard Merritt 1929
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And quite as much in the field of artificial words, e. g., kodak, crisco and postum, though here Dr. Louise Pound and her pupils have done a great deal of careful and valuable work.
Preface 2. Preface to the Revised Edition Henry Louis 1921
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If you don't stop at that, I'll tell the cook to put you on to postum.
The Brentons Anna Chapin Ray 1905
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It's retarded cause Nietzsche's sister, Elisabeth Forster, changed a lot of his writings postum to seem pro-nazi … that's a reason why Nietzsche is given a bad name from those jewish losers.
Business News and Business Products, Services, Reports and Advertising. Business News RSS Feed. admin 2010
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Bu sayede mesela benim bir blog postum üzerinden ilgili sayfaya giderseniz benim notlarımı da sayfada ilgili yerlerde görebileceksiniz.
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Bu sayede mesela benim bir blog postum üzerinden ilgili sayfaya giderseniz benim notlarımı da sayfada ilgili yerlerde görebileceksiniz.
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Take toast or sun-dried bread at the end of the meal, with black coffee or postum.
manybooks.net 2008
bilby commented on the word postum
"Postum was sometimes marketed by an invisible cartoon ghost named Mister Coffee Nerves..."
- Wikipedia.
January 12, 2012
yarb commented on the word postum
"There’s a Skaverbacked Gritchen
who lives in my kitchen
and makes his home under the sink.
And he lives upon Gipes
that crawl out of the pipes
and he takes only Postum to drink."
- Shel Silverstein, There's a Gritchen in my Kitchen
January 12, 2012