Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.
puckery (comparative more puckery, superlative most puckery)
Very sour, so that the lips pucker.
Inclined to become puckered or wrinkled; full of puckers or wrinkles.
Source: Wiktionary
Puck"er*y, a.
1. Producing, or tending to produce, a pucker; as, a puckery taste. Lowell.
2. Inclined to become puckered or wrinkled; full of puckers or wrinkles.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
27 May 2025
(noun) the property of being directional or maintaining a direction; “the directionality of written English is from left to right”
Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.