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.
DREAR
blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, dreary
(adjective) causing dejection; “a blue day”; “the dark days of the war”; “a week of rainy depressing weather”; “a disconsolate winter landscape”; “the first dismal dispiriting days of November”; “a dark gloomy day”; “grim rainy weather”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Adjective
drear (comparative drearer, )
(poetic) Dreary.
Etymology 2
Noun
drear (plural drears)
(obsolete) Gloom; sadness.
Anagrams
• Rader, arder, arred, darer, rared, rear'd, reard
Source: Wiktionary
Drear, a. Etym: [See Dreary.]
Definition: Dismal; gloomy with solitude. "A drear and dying sound." Milton.
Drear, n.
Definition: Sadness; dismalness. [Obs.] Spenser.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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GREAT
(adjective) remarkable or out of the ordinary in degree or magnitude or effect; “a great crisis”; “had a great stake in the outcome”
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