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.
MOROSE
dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen
(adjective) showing a brooding ill humor; “a dark scowl”; “the proverbially dour New England Puritan”; “a glum, hopeless shrug”; “he sat in moody silence”; “a morose and unsociable manner”; “a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius”- Bruce Bliven; “a sour temper”; “a sullen crowd”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
morose (comparative more morose or moroser, superlative most morose or morosest)
Sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour.
Synonyms
• melancholy
• sulky
• crabby
• glum
• grouchy
• gruff
• moody
Anagrams
• Romeos, mooers, more so, moreso, roomes
Source: Wiktionary
Mo*rose", a. Etym: [L. morosus, prop., excessively addicted to any particular way or habit, fr. mos, moris, manner, habit, way of life: cf. F. morose.]
1. Of a sour temper; sullen and austere; ill-humored; severe. "A morose and affected taciturnity." I. Watts.
2. Lascivious; brooding over evil thoughts. [Obs.]
Syn.
– Sullen; gruff; severe; austere; gloomy; crabbed; crusty; churlish; surly; ill-humored.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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