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.
FRACTIOUS
fractious
(adjective) unpredictably difficult in operation; likely to be troublesome; “rockets were much too fractious to be tested near thickly populated areas”; “fractious components of a communication system”
cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peevish, peckish, pettish, petulant, scratchy, testy, tetchy, techy
(adjective) easily irritated or annoyed; “an incorrigibly fractious young man”; “not the least nettlesome of his countrymen”
fractious, refractory, recalcitrant
(adjective) stubbornly resistant to authority or control; “a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness”; “a refractory child”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
fractious (comparative more fractious, superlative most fractious)
Given to troublemaking.
Irritable; argumentative; quarrelsome.
Source: Wiktionary
Frac"tious, a. Etym: [Cf. Prov. E. frack forward, eager, E. freak, fridge; or Prov. E. fratch to squabble, quarrel.]
Definition: Apt to break out into a passion; apt to scold; cross; snappish; ugly; unruly; as, a fractious man; a fractious horse.
Syn.
– Snappish; peevish; waspish; cross; irritable; perverse; pettish.
– Frac"tious*ly, v.
– Frac"tious*ness, n.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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