coffee-cup

See also: coffee cup and coffeecup

English

Noun

coffee-cup (plural coffee-cups)

1. Alternative form of coffee cup.
   • 1919, Henry B[lake] Fuller, “Cope Amidst Cross-Purposes”, in Bertram Cope’s Year: A Novel, Chicago, Ill.: Ralph Fletcher Seymour, The Alderbrink Press, →OCLC, page 110:

     Cope pushed away his coffee-cup and asked the young Greek for a cut of pie.