Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.
KNICKS
Etymology
From the fictional Diedrich Knickerbocker, a pseudonym of Washington Irving.
Proper noun
Knicks
The New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association, formerly the New York Knickerbockers of the Basketball Association of America.
Etymology
Noun
knicks pl (plural only)
(British, colloquial) Knickers.
(cycling) Lycra pants (usually short) used by cyclists.
Source: Wiktionary
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SENSE
(noun) the faculty through which the external world is apprehended; “in the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing”
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