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.
FATTEN
fatten, fat, flesh out, fill out, plump, plump out, fatten out, fatten up
(verb) make fat or plump; “We will plump out that poor starving child”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
fatten (third-person singular simple present fattens, present participle fattening, simple past and past participle fattened)
(transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to be fat or fatter.
(intransitive, of a person or animal) To become fat or fatter.
Synonyms: gain weight, put on weight
(transitive) To make thick or thicker (something containing paper, often money).
(intransitive) To become thick or thicker.
(transitive) To make (soil) fertile and fruitful.
Synonym: enrich
(intransitive) To become fertile and fruitful.
Source: Wiktionary
Fat"ten, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fattened; p. pr. & vb. n. Fattining.] Etym: [See Fat, v. t.]
1. To make fat; to feed for slaughter; to make fleshy or plump with fat; to fill full; to fat.
2. To make fertile and fruitful; to enrich; as, to fatten land; to fatten fields with blood. Dryden.
Fat"ten, v. i.
Definition: To grow fat or corpulent; to grow plump, thick, or fleshy; to be pampered. And villains fatten with the brave man's labor. Otway.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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PUNGENCY
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