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.
PULE
wail, whimper, mewl, pule
(verb) cry weakly or softly; “she wailed with pain”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Noun
pule (plural pules)
A plaintive melancholy whine.
Verb
pule (third-person singular simple present pules, present participle puling, simple past and past participle puled)
(intransitive) To whimper or whine.
(intransitive) To pipe or chirp.
Etymology 2
Noun
pule (uncountable)
A Serbian cheese made from donkey milk.
Anagrams
• Lupe
Source: Wiktionary
Pule, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Puled; p. pr. & vb. n. Puling.] Etym: [F. piauler; cf. L. pipilare, pipire, to peep, pip, chirp, and E. peep to chirp.]
1. To cry like a chicken. Bacon.
2. To whimper; to whine, as a complaining child. It becometh not such a gallant to whine and pule. Barrow.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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