Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.
dawdles
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dawdle
• Dewalds, Waddles, swaddle, waddles
Source: Wiktionary
Daw"dle, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Dawdled; p. pr. & vb. n. Dawdling.] Etym: [Cf. Daddle.]
Definition: To waste time in trifling employment; to trifle; to saunter. Come some evening and dawdle over a dish of tea with me. Johnson. We . . . dawdle up and down Pall Mall. Thackeray.
Daw"dle, v. t.
Definition: To waste by trifling; as, to dawdle away a whole morning.
Daw"dle, n.
Definition: A dawdler. Colman & Carrick.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
1 January 2025
(adverb) in a concerned and solicitous manner; “‘Don’t you feel well?’ his mother asked solicitously”
Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.