Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.
BIRKS
Etymology 1
Proper noun
Birks (plural er-noun)
A surname.
Proper noun
Birks
plural of Birk
Etymology 2
Noun
Birks pl (plural only)
(slang) Birkenstock sandals
Anagrams
• brisk
Noun
birks
plural of birk
Anagrams
• brisk
Source: Wiktionary
BIRK
Birk, n. Etym: [See Birch, n.]
Definition: A birch tree. [Prov. Eng.] "The silver birk." Tennyson.
Birk, n. (Zoöl.)
Definition: A small European minnow (Leuciscus phoxinus).
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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HEEDLESS
(adjective) marked by or paying little heed or attention; “We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics”--Franklin D. Roosevelt; “heedless of danger”; “heedless of the child’s crying”
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