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.
CLUMSY
awkward, clumsy, cumbersome, inapt, inept, ill-chosen
(adjective) not elegant or graceful in expression; “an awkward prose style”; “a clumsy apology”; “his cumbersome writing style”; “if the rumor is true, can anything be more inept than to repeat it now?”
gawky, clumsy, clunky, ungainly, unwieldy
(adjective) lacking grace in movement or posture; “a gawky lad with long ungainly legs”; “clumsy fingers”; “what an ungainly creature a giraffe is”; “heaved his unwieldy figure out of his chair”
bungling, clumsy, fumbling, incompetent
(adjective) showing lack of skill or aptitude; “a bungling workman”; “did a clumsy job”; “his fumbling attempt to put up a shelf”
awkward, bunglesome, clumsy, ungainly
(adjective) difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape; “an awkward bundle to carry”; “a load of bunglesome paraphernalia”; “clumsy wooden shoes”; “the cello, a rather ungainly instrument for a girl”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
clumsy (comparative clumsier, superlative clumsiest)
Awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous.
Not elegant or well-planned, lacking tact or subtlety.
Awkward or inefficient in use or construction, difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape.
Noun
clumsy (plural clumsies)
(informal, fairly rare) A clumsy person.
Synonyms
• butterfingers
• galoot
• klutz
Anagrams
• cumyls, muscly
Source: Wiktionary
Clum"sy, a. [Compar. Clumsier; superl. Clumsiest.] Etym: [OE. clumsed benumbed, fr. clumsen to be benumbed; cf. Icel. klumsa lockjaw, dial. Sw. klummsen benumbed with cold. Cf. 1st Clam, and 1st Clamp.]
1. Stiff or benumbed, as with cold. [Obs.]
2. Without skill or grace; wanting dexterity, nimbleness, or readiness; stiff; awkward, as if benumbed; unwieldy; unhandy; hence; ill-made, misshapen, or inappropriate; as, a clumsy person; a clumsy workman; clumsy fingers; a clumsy gesture; a clumsy excuse. But thou in clumsy verse, unlicked, unpointed, Hast shamefully defied the Lord's anointed. Dryden.
Syn.
– See Awkward.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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