mugachino

plural mugachinos

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of mugaccino.

   Coffee is served with chocolate-coated coffee beans – cappuccino $2 and mugachino $3.

   1994 January 25, Judy Robinson, Jennifer Connell, “Life’s a beach & then you eat”, in The Sydney Morning Herald, number 48,795, page 25

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   ‘Want a cappuccino? Macchiato? Long white?’ ‘Mugachino. Lots of froth, please,’ Margaret says to the waiter.

   2000, Finola Moorhead, “the spaces beneath”, in Darkness More Visible, Spinifex Press, →ISBN, book two (motherhood), page 181

   The two audience measurers agreed that the most watched show was Better Homes and Gardens, confirming last year’s impression that urban Australians have their feet firmly rooted in the soil (with both hands firmly round a mugachino from Central Perk [a coffee house in Friends]).

   2001 February 17, David Dale, “That friendly feeling is only temporary”, in The Sydney Morning Herald, number 51,003, page 42

   You simply follow the line of dead-eyed wage slaves attracted to this cynical, hermetically sealed, weatherless biosphere by the promise that a new phone will fix their punctured souls and homewares and jumbo caramel mugachinos will fill their gaping caverns of disappointment.

   2009, Catherine Deveny, “The Good Life”, in Free to a Good Home, Black Inc., →ISBN, section “Chadstone”, page 75