Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.
INDELICACY
indelicacy
(noun) an impolite act or expression
indelicacy
(noun) the trait of being indelicate and offensive
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
indelicacy (countable and uncountable, plural indelicacies)
(uncountable) The condition of being indelicate.
(countable) An indelicate act or statement.
Source: Wiktionary
In*del"i*ca*cy, n.; pl. Indelicacies. Etym: [From Indelicate.]
Definition: The quality of being indelicate; want of delicacy, or of a nice sense of, or regard for, purity, propriety, or refinement in manners, language, etc.; rudeness; coarseness; also, that which is offensive to refined taste or purity of mind. The indelicacy of English comedy. Blair. Your papers would be chargeable with worse than indelicacy; they would be immoral. Addison.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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