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.
GOUTY
gouty
(adjective) suffering from gout
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
gouty (comparative goutier, superlative goutiest)
Suffering from gout.
Synonyms
• gout-ridden
Anagrams
• guyot
Source: Wiktionary
Gout"y, a.
1. Diseased with, or subject to, the gout; as, a gouty person; a gouty joint.
2. Pertaining to the gout. "Gouty matter." Blackmore.
3. Swollen, as if from gout. Derham.
4. Boggy; as, gouty land. [Obs.] Spenser. Gouty bronchitis, bronchitis arising as a secondary disease during the progress of gout.
– Gouty concretions, calculi (urate of sodium) formed in the joints, kidneys, etc., of sufferers from gout.
– Gouty kidney, an affection occurring during the progress of gout, the kidney shriveling and containing concretions of urate of sodium.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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THOUGHTLESS
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