Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.
cokes
plural of coke
cokes
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of coke
cokes (plural cokeses)
(obsolete) A simpleton; a dupe.
• scoke
Cokes
plural of Coke
• scoke
Source: Wiktionary
Cokes, n. Etym: [OE. Cf. Coax.]
Definition: A simpleton; a gull; a dupe. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
Coke, n. Etym: [Perh. akin to cake, n.]
Definition: Mineral coal charred, or depriver of its bitumen, sulphur, or other volatile matter by roasting in a kiln or oven, or by distillation, as in gas works. It is lagerly used where [Written also coak.] Gas coke, the coke formed in gas retorts, as distinguished from that made in ovens.
Coke, v. t.
Definition: To convert into coke.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
15 April 2025
(adjective) marked by or promising bad fortune; “their business venture was doomed from the start”; “an ill-fated business venture”; “an ill-starred romance”; “the unlucky prisoner was again put in irons”- W.H.Prescott
Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.