Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.
BACCARE
Etymology
Interjection
baccare
(obsolete) Stand back! give place! — a cant word of the Elizabethan writers, probably in ridicule of some person who pretended to a knowledge of Latin which he did not possess.
Anagrams
• braccae
Source: Wiktionary
Bac*ca"re, Bac*ka"re, interj.
Definition: Stand back! give place! -- a cant word of the Elizabethan writers, probably in ridicule of some person who pretended to a knowledge of Latin which he did not possess. Baccare! you are marvelous forward. Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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BACKFIRE
(verb) come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect; “Your comments may backfire and cause you a lot of trouble”; “the political movie backlashed on the Democrats”
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