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.
GRIMNESS
asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigour, severity, severeness, rigorousness, rigourousness
(noun) something hard to endure; “the asperity of northern winters”
ghastliness, grimness, gruesomeness, luridness
(noun) the quality of being ghastly
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
grimness (usually uncountable, plural grimnesses)
The characteristic or quality of being grim.
Source: Wiktionary
Grim"ness, n. Etym: [AS. grimnes.]
Definition: Fierceness of look; sternness; crabbedness; forbiddingness.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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GUILLOTINE
(verb) kill by cutting the head off with a guillotine; “The French guillotined many Vietnamese while they occupied the country”
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