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.
SCROOGE
niggard, skinflint, scrooge, churl
(noun) a selfish person who is unwilling to give or spend
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
From the character Ebenezer Scrooge in the Charles Dickens novel, A Christmas Carol.
Noun
scrooge (plural scrooges)
A miserly person; a person with an excessive dislike of spending money or other resources.
Synonyms
• See also miser
Etymology 2
Verb
scrooge (third-person singular simple present scrooges, present participle scrooging, simple past and past participle scrooged)
(UK, US, dialect) To crush or press; to squeeze (past, into, together, etc.).
Proper noun
Scrooge
The fictional character Ebenezer Scrooge.
Synonyms
• Ebenezer Scrooge
Source: Wiktionary
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