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.
ROBUSTIOUS
boisterous, rambunctious, robustious, rumbustious, unruly
(adjective) noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline; “a boisterous crowd”; “a social gathering that became rambunctious and out of hand”; “a robustious group of teenagers”; “beneath the rumbustious surface of his paintings is sympathy for the vulnerability of ordinary human beings”; “an unruly class”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
robustious (comparative more robustious, superlative most robustious)
boisterous
Source: Wiktionary
Ro*bus"tious, a. Etym: [Cf. L. robusteus of oak.]
Definition: Robust. [Obs. or Humorous] W. Irving. In Scotland they had handled the bishops in a more robustious manner. Milton.
– Ro*bus"tious*ly, adv.
– Ro*bus"tious*ness, n.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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