Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.
RATTENED
Verb
rattened
simple past tense and past participle of ratten
Anagrams
• attender, nattered, reattend, tartened
Source: Wiktionary
RATTEN
Rat"ten, v. t. Etym: [Prov. E. ratten a rat, hence the verb literally means, to do mischief like a rat.]
Definition: To deprive feloniously of the tools used in one's employment (as by breaking or stealing them), for the purpose of annoying; as, to ratten a mechanic who works during a strike. [Trades-union Cant] J. McCarthy.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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CURE
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