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.
DAW
jackdaw, daw, Corvus monedula
(noun) common black-and-grey Eurasian bird noted for thievery
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Noun
daw (plural daws)
A western jackdaw, Coloeus monedula, a passerine bird in the crow family (Corvidae), more commonly called jackdaw.
(obsolete) An idiot, a simpleton; fool.
Synonyms
• jackdaw (Eurasian jackdaw, European jackdaw, western jackdaw)
Etymology 2
Verb
daw (third-person singular simple present daws, present participle dawing, simple past and past participle dawed)
(obsolete, outside, Scotland) To dawn.
(obsolete) To wake (someone) up.
(obsolete) To daunt; to terrify.
Anagrams
• -wad, ADW, AWD, WAD, wad
Etymology
Proper noun
Daw
A surname.
Anagrams
• -wad, ADW, AWD, WAD, wad
Noun
DAW (plural DAWs)
Initialism of digital audio workstation.
Verb
DAW
Initialism of dispense as written.
Anagrams
• -wad, ADW, AWD, WAD, wad
Source: Wiktionary
Daw, n. Etym: [OE. dawe; akin to OHG. taha, MHG. tahe, tahele, G. dohle. Cf. Caddow.] (Zoöl.)
Definition: A European bird of the Crow family (Corvus monedula), often nesting in church towers and ruins; a jackdaw. The loud daw, his throat displaying, draw The whole assembly of his fellow daws. Waller.
Note: The daw was reckoned as a silly bird, and a daw meant a simpleton. See in Shakespeare: -- "Then thou dwellest with daws too." (Coriolanus iv. 5, 1. 47.) Skeat.
Daw, v. i. Etym: [OE. dawen. See Dawn.]
Definition: To dawn. [Obs.] See Dawn.
Daw, v. t. Etym: [Contr. fr. Adaw.]
1. To rouse. [Obs.]
2. To daunt; to terrify. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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