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.
GOUGE
gouge
(noun) the act of gouging
gouge
(noun) and edge tool with a blade like a trough for cutting channels or grooves
dent, ding, gouge, nick
(noun) an impression in a surface (as made by a blow)
gouge, force out
(verb) force with the thumb; “gouge out his eyes”
rout, gouge
(verb) make a groove in
extort, squeeze, rack, gouge, wring
(verb) obtain by coercion or intimidation; “They extorted money from the executive by threatening to reveal his past to the company boss”; “They squeezed money from the owner of the business by threatening him”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
gouge (plural gouges)
Senses relating to cutting tools.
A chisel with a curved blade for cutting or scooping channels, grooves, or holes in wood, stone, etc.
A bookbinder's tool with a curved face, used for blind tooling or gilding.
An incising tool that cuts blanks or forms for envelopes, gloves, etc, from leather, paper, or other materials.
A cut or groove, as left by a gouge or something sharp.
(originally, US, colloquial) An act of gouging.
(slang) A cheat, a fraud; an imposition.
Synonym: swindle
(slang) An impostor.
(mining) Soft material lying between the wall of a vein and the solid vein of ore.
Verb
gouge (third-person singular simple present gouges, present participle gouging, simple past and past participle gouged)
(transitive) To make a groove, hole, or mark in by scooping with or as if with a gouge.
Synonyms: engrave, grave, incise
(transitive) To cheat or impose upon; in particular, to charge an unfairly or unreasonably high price.
Synonyms: defraud, swindle
(transitive, intransitive) To dig or scoop (something) out with or as if with a gouge; in particular, to use a thumb to push or try to push the eye (of a person) out of its socket.
(intransitive) To use a gouge.
Proper noun
Gouge (plural Gouges)
A surname.
Statistics
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Gouge is the 11156th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 2837 individuals. Gouge is most common among White (89.57%) individuals.
Source: Wiktionary
Gouge, n. Etym: [F. gouge. LL. gubia, guvia, gulbia, gulvia, gulvium; cf. Bisc. gubia bow, gubioa throat.]
1. A chisel, with a hollow or semicylindrical blade, for scooping or cutting holes, channels, or grooves, in wood, stone, etc.; a similar instrument, with curved edge, for turning wood.
2. A bookbinder's tool for blind tooling or gilding, having a face which forms a curve.
3. An incising tool which cuts forms or blanks for gloves, envelopes, etc.. from leather, paper, etc. Knight.
4. (Mining)
Definition: Soft material lying between the wall of a vein aud the solid vein. Raymond.
5. The act of scooping out with a gouge, or as with a gouge; a groove or cavity scooped out, as with a gouge.
6. Imposition; cheat; fraud; also, an impostor; a cheat; a trickish person. [Slang, U. S.] Gouge bit, a boring bit, shaped like a gouge.
Gouge, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gouged; p. pr. & vb. n. Gouging.]
1. To scoop out with a gouge.
2. To scoop out, as an eye, with the thumb nail; to force out the eye of (a person) with the thumb. [K S.]
Note: A barbarity mentioned by some travelers as formerly practiced in the brutal frays of desperadoes in some parts of the United States.
3. To cheat in a bargain; to chouse. [Slang, U. S.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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