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.
IMPLICATURE
Etymology
Coined by Paul Grice.
Noun
implicature (plural implicatures)
(pragmatics) An implied meaning that does not semantically entail.
Usage notes
• Adjectives often applied to "implicature": scalar, conventional, conversational, generalized, particularized, contextual.
Source: Wiktionary
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DITHER
(noun) an excited state of agitation; “he was in a dither”; “there was a terrible flap about the theft”
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