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.
GALLIGASKINS
Noun
galligaskins pl (plural only)
(archaic) Large, loose breeches, fashionable in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Source: Wiktionary
Gal`li*gas"kins, n. pl. Etym: [Prob. corrupted fr. It. Grechesco Grecian, a name which seems to have been given in Venice, and to have been afterwards confused with Gascony, as if they came from Gascony.]
Definition: Loose hose or breeches; leather leg quards. The word is used loosely and often in a jocose sense.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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