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.
REGIONALISM
regionalism
(noun) loyalty to the interests of a particular region
regionalism
(noun) a foreign policy that defines the international interests of a country in terms of particular geographic areas
regionalism
(noun) a feature (as a pronunciation or expression or custom) that is characteristic of a particular region
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
regionalism (countable and uncountable, plural regionalisms)
Affection, often excessive, for one's own region and to everything related to it.
Political tendency to concede forms of politico-administrative autonomy to regions.
(countable, linguistics) A word or phrase originating in, characteristic of, or limited to a region.
Synonyms
• (linguistics): provincialism
Hyponyms
• (linguistics; English regionalism): Americanism, Australianism, Briticism, Britishism, Canadianism
Source: Wiktionary
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NEGLECT
(verb) leave undone or leave out; “How could I miss that typo?”; “The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten”
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