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.
BRUNT
brunt
(noun) main force of a blow etc; “bore the brunt of the attack”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
brunt (plural brunts)
The full adverse effects; the chief consequences or negative results of a thing or event.
The major part of something; the bulk.
Verb
brunt (third-person singular simple present brunts, present participle brunting, simple past and past participle brunted)
(transitive) To bear the brunt of; to weather or withstand.
Anagrams
• burnt
Proper noun
Brunt (plural Brunts)
A surname.
Statistics
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Brunt is the 15651st most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1866 individuals. Brunt is most common among White (70.58%) and Black/African American (21.01%) individuals.
Anagrams
• burnt
Source: Wiktionary
Brunt, n. Etym: [OE. brunt, bront, fr. Icel. bruna to rush; cf. Icel. brenna to burn. Cf. Burn, v. t.]
1. The heat, or utmost violence, of an onset; the strength or greatest fury of any contention; as, the brunt of a battle.
2. The force of a blow; shock; collision. "And heavy brunt of cannon ball." Hudibras. It is instantly and irrecoverably scattered by our first brunt with some real affair of common life. I. Taylor.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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