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.
LANTERLOO
Etymology
Noun
lanterloo (countable and uncountable, plural lanterloos)
(countable) A meaningless chant or refrain.
(uncountable, cards) A trick-taking card game popular in 17th-century England, where each player is dealt three or five cards.
Synonyms
• (card game): loo
Source: Wiktionary
Lan"ter*loo`, n.
Definition: An old name of loo (a).
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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GRIP
(noun) an intellectual hold or understanding; “a good grip on French history”; “they kept a firm grip on the two top priorities”; “he was in the grip of a powerful emotion”; “a terrible power had her in its grasp”
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