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.
DEY
Etymology 1
Noun
dey (plural deys)
(UK dialectal, Scotland) A servant who has charge of the dairy; a dairymaid.
Etymology 2
Noun
dey (plural deys)
(historical) The ruler of the Regency of Algiers (now Algeria) under the Ottoman Empire.
Etymology 3
Pronoun
dey
Pronunciation spelling of they.
Pronunciation spelling of there.
Anagrams
• Dye, d'ye, dye, ye'd, yed
Etymology
Proper noun
Dey
The tenth solar month of the Persian calendar.
Anagrams
• Dye, d'ye, dye, ye'd, yed
Source: Wiktionary
Dey, n. Etym: [See Dairy.]
Definition: A servant who has charge of the dairy; a dairymaid. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Dey, n.; pl. Deys. Etym: [Turk. dai, orig., a maternal uncle, then a friendly title formerly given to middle-aged or old people, especially among the Janizaries; and hence, in Algiers, consecrated at length to the commanding officer of that corps, who frequently became afterward pasha or regent of that province; hence the European misnomer of dey, as applied to the latter: cf. F. dey.]
Definition: The governor of Algiers; -- so called before the French conquest in 1830.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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DOOMED
(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
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