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.
PROFITEER
profiteer
(noun) someone who makes excessive profit (especially on goods in short supply)
profiteer
(verb) make an unreasonable profit, as on the sale of difficult to obtain goods
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
profiteer (plural profiteers)
(pejorative) One who makes an unreasonable profit not justified by cost or risk, a rent seeker.
Hypernyms
• profiter
Verb
profiteer (third-person singular simple present profiteers, present participle profiteering, simple past and past participle profiteered)
To make an unreasonable profit not justified by cost or risk.
Source: Wiktionary
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