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.
POCK
pock
(noun) a pustule in an eruptive disease
scar, mark, pock, pit
(verb) mark with a scar; “The skin disease scarred his face permanently”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
pock (plural pocks)
A pus-filled swelling on the surface on the skin caused by an eruptive disease.
Any pit, especially one formed as a scar
Verb
pock (third-person singular simple present pocks, present participle pocking, simple past and past participle pocked)
To scar or mark with pits
Source: Wiktionary
Pock, n. Etym: [OE. pokke, AS. pocc, poc; akin to D. pok, G. pocke, and perh. to E. poke a pocket. Cf. Pox.] (Med.)
Definition: A pustule raised on the surface of the body in variolous and vaccine diseases. Of pokkes and of scab every sore. Chaucer.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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ROOTS
(noun) the condition of belonging to a particular place or group by virtue of social or ethnic or cultural lineage; “his roots in Texas go back a long way”; “he went back to Sweden to search for his roots”; “his music has African roots”
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