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.
MILKY
milky, milklike, whitish
(adjective) resembling milk in color; not clear; “milky glass”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
milky (comparative milkier, superlative milkiest)
Resembling milk in color, consistency, smell, etc.; consisting of milk.
(color science, informal) Of the black in an image, appearing as dark gray rather than black.
(of a drink) Containing (an especially large amount of) milk.
(of grains) Containing a whitish liquid, juicy.
(colloquial) Cowardly.
(colloquial) Immature, childish.
(obsolete) Producing milk, lactating.
Synonyms
• (resembling milk): lacteous; see also lacteous
• (containing milk): lactiferous
• (cowardly): fearful, nithing; see also cowardly
• (immature): infantile, puerile; see also childish
• (producing milk): lactifluous, nursing, with milk
Source: Wiktionary
Milk"y, a.
1. Consisting of, or containing, milk. Pails high foaming with a milky flood. Pope.
2. Like, or somewhat like, milk; whitish and turbid; as, the water is milky. "Milky juice." Arbuthnot.
3. Yielding milk. "Milky mothers." Roscommon.
4. Mild; tame; spiritless. Has friendship such a faint and milky heart Shak. Milky Way. (Astron.) See Galaxy, 1.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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