Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.
DUSKILY
Etymology
Adverb
duskily (comparative more duskily, superlative most duskily)
In a dusky manner.
Source: Wiktionary
Dusk"i*ly, adv.
Definition: In a dusky manner. Byron.
DUSKY
Dusk"y, a.
1. Partially dark or obscure; not luminous; dusk; as, a dusky valley. Through dusky lane and wrangling mart. Keble.
2. Tending to blackness in color; partially black; dark-colored; not bright; as, a dusky brown. Bacon. When Jove in dusky clouds involves the sky. Dryden. The figure of that first ancestor invested by family tradition with a dim and dusky grandeur. Hawthorne.
3. Gloomy; sad; melancholy. This dusky scene of horror, this melancholy prospect. Bentley.
4. Intellectually clouded. Though dusky wits dare scorn astrology. Sir P. Sidney.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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