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.
ENORMOUS
enormous, tremendous
(adjective) extraordinarily large in size or extent or amount or power or degree; “an enormous boulder”; “enormous expenses”; “tremendous sweeping plains”; “a tremendous fact in human experience; that a whole civilization should be dependent on technology”- Walter Lippman; “a plane took off with a tremendous noise”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
enormous (comparative more enormous, superlative most enormous)
(obsolete) Deviating from the norm; unusual, extraordinary.
(obsolete) Exceedingly wicked; atrocious or outrageous.
Extremely large; greatly exceeding the common size, extent, etc.
Synonyms
• massive
• huge
• gigantic
• humongous
• abnormal
• tremendous
• See also gigantic
Anagrams
• nemorous
Source: Wiktionary
E*nor"mous, a. Etym: [L. enormis enormous, out of rule; e out + norma rule: cf. F. Ă©norme. See Normal.]
1. Exceeding the usual rule, norm, or measure; out of due proportion; inordinate; abnormal. "Enormous bliss." Milton. "This enormous state." Shak. "The hoop's enormous size." Jenyns. Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait. Milton.
2. Exceedingly wicked; outrageous; atrocious; monstrous; as, an enormous crime. That detestable profession of a life so enormous. Bale.
Syn.
– Huge; vast; immoderate; immense; excessive; prodigious; monstrous.
– Enormous, Immense, Excessive. We speak of a thing as enormous when it overpasses its ordinary law of existence or far exceeds its proper average or standard, and becomes -- so to speak -- abnormal in its magnitude, degree, etc.; as, a man of enormous strength; a deed of enormous wickedness. Immense expresses somewhat indefinitely an immeasurable quantity or extent. Excessive is applied to what is beyond a just measure or amount, and is always used in an evil; as, enormous size; an enormous crime; an immense expenditure; the expanse of ocean is immense. "Excessive levity and indulgence are ultimately excessive rigor." V. Knox. "Complaisance becomes servitude when it is excessive." La Rochefoucauld (Trans).
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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