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.
BROOKS
Brooks, Van Wyck Brooks
(noun) United States literary critic and historian (1886-1963)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
brooks
plural of brook
Verb
brooks
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of brook
Anagrams
• bokors, obroks
Proper noun
Brooks
A topographic surname, variant of Brook.
A male given name
A placename
A city in Alberta, Canada
A town in Georgia, United States
A census-designated place in Kentucky, United States
A town in Maine, United States
A city in Minnesota, United States
Coordinate terms
• Brooke (the equivalent female given name)
Anagrams
• bokors, obroks
Source: Wiktionary
BROOK
Brook, n. Etym: [OE. brok, broke, brook, AS. broc; akin to D. broek, LG. brok, marshy ground, OHG. pruoh, G. bruch marsh; prob. fr. the root of E. break, so as that it signifies water breaking through the earth, a spring or brook, as well as a marsh. See Break, v. t.]
Definition: A natural stream of water smaller than a river or creek. The Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water. Deut. viii. 7. Empires itself, as doth an inland brook Into the main of waters. Shak.
Brook, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Brooked; p. pr. & vb. n. Brooking.] Etym: [OE. broken, bruken, to use, enjoy, digest, AS. br; akin to D. gebruiken to use, OHG. pr, G. brauchen, gebrauchen, Icel. br, Goth. br, and L. frui, to enjoy. Cf. Fruit, Broker.]
1. To use; to enjoy. [Obs.] Chaucer.
2. To bear; to endure; to put up with; to tolerate; as, young men can not brook restraint. Spenser. Shall we, who could not brook one lord, Crouch to the wicked ten Macaulay.
3. To deserve; to earn. [Obs.] Sir J. Hawkins.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
Recent Word Finds
Word of the Day
27 April 2024
GREAT
(adjective) remarkable or out of the ordinary in degree or magnitude or effect; “a great crisis”; “had a great stake in the outcome”
Coffee Trivia
