Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.
AFTERPAIN
Etymology
Noun
afterpain (plural afterpains)
(pathology, often in the plural) pain of uterine contractions experienced after childbirth (especially after passage of the placenta)
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DOOMED
(adjective) marked by or promising bad fortune; “their business venture was doomed from the start”; “an ill-fated business venture”; “an ill-starred romance”; “the unlucky prisoner was again put in irons”- W.H.Prescott
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