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.
IRRITABLE
cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peevish, peckish, pettish, petulant, scratchy, testy, tetchy, techy
(adjective) easily irritated or annoyed; “an incorrigibly fractious young man”; “not the least nettlesome of his countrymen”
excitable, irritable
(adjective) capable of responding to stimuli
irritable
(adjective) abnormally sensitive to a stimulus
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
irritable (comparative more irritable, superlative most irritable)
Capable of being irritated.
Easily exasperated or excited.
(medicine) Responsive to stimuli.
Synonyms
• See also irritable
Source: Wiktionary
Ir"ri*ta*ble, a. Etym: [L. irritabilis: cf. F. irritable. See Irritate.]
1. Capable of being irriated.
2. Very susceptible of anger or passion; easily inflamed or exasperated; as, an irritable temper. Vicious, old, and irritable. Tennyson.
3. (Physiol.)
Definition: Endowed with irritability; susceptible of irritation; capable of being excited to action by the application of certain stimuli.
4. (Med.)
Definition: Susceptible of irritation; unduly sensitive to irritants or stimuli. See Irritation, n., 3.
Syn.
– Excitable; irascible; touchy; fretful; peevish.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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