Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.
NIMIETY
excess, surplus, surplusage, nimiety
(noun) a quantity much larger than is needed
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
nimiety (countable and uncountable, plural nimieties)
State of being in excess, more than is needed.
Synonyms
• superfluity
• surfeit
Source: Wiktionary
Ni*mi"e*ty, n. Etym: [L. nimietas, fr. nimius, a., nimis, adv., too much.]
Definition: State of being in excess. [R.] There is a nimiety, a too-muchess, in all Germans. Coleridge.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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