Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.
IDEOPHONE
Etymology
James F. Fordyce (The Ideophone as a Phonosemantic Class: The Case of Yoruba, in Current approaches to African linguistics, Ivan R. Dihoff (ed.), page 263) credits C. M. Doke with introducing the term in 1935.
Noun
ideophone (plural ideophones)
A word that utilizes sound symbolism to express aspects of events that can be experienced by the senses, like smell, color, shape, sound, action, or movement.
Source: Wiktionary
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