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.
BATHETIC
bathetic, drippy, hokey, maudlin, mawkish, kitschy, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, sappy, soppy, soupy, slushy
(adjective) effusively or insincerely emotional; “a bathetic novel”; “maudlin expressions of sympathy”; “mushy effusiveness”; “a schmaltzy song”; “sentimental soap operas”; “slushy poetry”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
bathetic (comparative more bathetic, superlative most bathetic)
Characterized by or pertaining to bathos.
Source: Wiktionary
Ba*thet"ic, a.
Definition: Having the character of bathos. [R.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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TRUNCATION
(noun) the replacement of an edge or solid angle (as in cutting a gemstone) by a plane (especially by a plane that is equally inclined to the adjacent faces)
Coffee Trivia
