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.
RANCOR
resentment, bitterness, gall, rancor, rancour
(noun) a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
rancor (countable and uncountable, plural rancors)
(American spelling) The deepest malignity or spite; deep-seated enmity or malice; inveterate hatred.
Anagrams
• Carron, Cranor
Source: Wiktionary
Ran"cor, n. [Written also rancour.] Etym: [OE. rancour, OF. rancor, rancur, F. rancune, fr. L. rancor rancidity, rankness; tropically, an old grudge, rancor, fr. rancere to be rank or rancid.]
Definition: The deepest malignity or spite; deep-seated enmity or malice; inveterate hatred. "To stint rancour and dissencioun." Chaucer. It would not be easy to conceive the passion, rancor, and malice of their tongues and hearts. Burke.
Syn.
– Enmity; hatred; ill will; malice; spite; grudge; animosity; malignity.
– Rancor, Enmity. Enmity and rancor both describe hostile feelings; but enmity may be generous and open, while rancor implies personal malice of the worst and most enduring nature, and is the strongest word in our language to express hostile feelings. Rancor will out; proud prelate, in thy face I see thy fury. Shak. Rancor is that degree of malice which preys upon the possessor. Cogan.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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