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.
FEATHERBED
featherbed
(verb) hire more workers than are necessary
pamper, featherbed, cosset, cocker, baby, coddle, mollycoddle, spoil, indulge
(verb) treat with excessive indulgence; “grandparents often pamper the children”; “Let’s not mollycoddle our students!”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
featherbed (plural featherbeds)
A mattress stuffed with feathers.
(UK, Dartmoor) A bog covered by a layer of moss, presenting a hazard to walkers.
Verb
featherbed (third-person singular simple present featherbeds, present participle featherbedding, simple past and past participle featherbedded)
(transitive) To treat someone with excessive indulgence; to pamper, cosset or mollycoddle.
Source: Wiktionary
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