Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.
AUNT
aunt, auntie, aunty
(noun) the sister of your father or mother; the wife of your uncle
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
aunt (plural aunts)
The sister or sister-in-law of one’s parent.
(affectionate) The female cousin of one’s parent.
(affectionate) A woman of an older generation than oneself, especially a friend of one's parents, by means of fictive kin.
(obsolete) Any elderly woman.
(obsolete) A procuress or bawd.
Antonyms
• (with regard to gender) uncle
• (with regard to ancestry) niece, nephew
Hyponyms
• (sister of someone's father) paternal aunt
• (sister of someone's mother) maternal aunt
Anagrams
• -naut, Tuna, naut., tuan, tuna
Source: Wiktionary
Aunt, n. Etym: [OF. ante, F. tante, L. amita father's sister. Cf. Amma.]
1. The sister of one's father or mother; -- correlative to nephew or niece. Also applied to an uncle's wife.
Note: Aunt is sometimes applied as a title or term of endearment to a kind elderly woman not thus related.
2. An old woman; and old gossip. [Obs.] Shak.
3. A bawd, or a prostitute. [Obs.] Shak. Aunt Sally, a puppet head placed on a pole and having a pipe in its mouth; also a game, which consists in trying to hit the pipe by throwing short bludgeons at it.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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