Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.
buccaneered
simple past tense and past participle of buccaneer
Source: Wiktionary
Buc`ca*neer", n. Etym: [F. boucanier, fr. boucaner to smoke or broil meat and fish, to hunt wild beasts for their skins, boucan a smoking place for meat or fish, gridiron for smoking: a word of American origin.]
Definition: A robber upon the sea; a pirate; -- a term applied especially to the piratical adventurers who made depredations on the Spaniards in America in the 17th and 18th centuries. [Written also bucanier.]
Note: Primarily, one who dries and smokes flesh or fish after the manner of the Indians. The name was first given to the French settlers in Hayti or Hispaniola, whose business was to hunt wild cattle and swine.
Buc`ca*neer", v. i.
Definition: To act the part of a buccaneer; to live as a piratical adventurer or sea robber.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
12 February 2025
(noun) an abnormal enlargement of the colon; can be congenital (as in Hirschsprung’s disease) or acquired (as when children refuse to defecate)
Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.