CLITTER

stridulate, clitter

(verb) make a shrill creaking noise by rubbing together special bodily structures; “male insects such as crickets or grasshoppers stridulate”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Verb

clitter (third-person singular simple present clitters, present participle clittering, simple past and past participle clittered)

To clatter lightly; to make a soft rattling noise.

Noun

clitter (countable and uncountable, plural clitters)

Loose stones on hillsides deposited by weathering.

Synonyms

• scree

Source: Wiktionary



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The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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