Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.
biled
simple past tense and past participle of bile
• Dible, Lebid, beild, belid, bield
Source: Wiktionary
Bile, n. Etym: [L. bilis: cf. F. bile.]
1. (Physiol.)
Definition: A yellow, or greenish, viscid fluid, usually alkaline in reaction, secreted by the liver. It passes into the intestines, where it aids in the digestive process. Its characteristic constituents are the bile salts, and coloring matters.
2. Bitterness of feeling; choler; anger; ill humor; as, to stir one's bile. Prescott.
Note: The ancients considered the bile to be the "humor" which caused irascibility.
Bile, n. Etym: [OE. byle, bule, bele, AS. b, b; skin to D. buil, G. beule, and Goth. ufbauljan to puff up. Cf. Boil a tumor, Bulge.]
Definition: A boil. [Obs. or Archaic]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
22 February 2025
(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride’s father’
Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.