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.
CHOMP
bite, chomp
(noun) the act of gripping or chewing off with the teeth and jaws
chomp, champ
(verb) chew noisily; “The boy chomped his sandwich”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
U.S. regional variation of “champ” (verb)
Noun
chomp (plural chomps)
The act of chomping (see below)
Verb
chomp (third-person singular simple present chomps, present participle chomping, simple past and past participle chomped)
(intransitive) To bite or chew loudly or heavily.
(computing, transitive, Perl) To remove the final character from (a text string) if it is a newline (or, less commonly, some other programmer-specified character).
Source: Wiktionary
Chomp, v. i.
Definition: To chew loudly and greedily; to champ. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U. S.] Halliwell.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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