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.
FRUITCAKE
fruitcake
(noun) a rich cake containing dried fruit and nuts and citrus peel and so on
crackpot, crank, nut, nut case, fruitcake, screwball
(noun) a whimsically eccentric person
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
fruitcake (countable and uncountable, plural fruitcakes)
A cake containing dried fruits and, optionally, nuts, citrus peel and spice.
(chiefly, US, Canada, Australia, colloquial, derogatory) A crazy or eccentric person.
(US, slang, colloquial, derogatory, dated) A homosexual male.
Source: Wiktionary
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DISKETTE
(noun) a small plastic magnetic disk enclosed in a stiff envelope with a radial slit; used to store data or programs for a microcomputer; “floppy disks are noted for their relatively slow speed and small capacity and low price”
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