Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.
scurry, scamper, skitter, scuttle
(verb) to move about or proceed hurriedly; “so terrified by the extraordinary ebbing of the sea that they scurried to higher ground”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
scurried
simple past tense and past participle of scurry
Source: Wiktionary
Scur"ry, v. i. Etym: [Cf. Scur, Skirr.]
Definition: To hasten away or along; to move rapidly; to hurry; as, the rabbit scurried away.
Scur"ry, n.
Definition: Act of scurring; hurried movement.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
7 January 2025
(adverb) in an uninformative manner; “‘I can’t tell you when the manager will arrive,’ he said rather uninformatively”
Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.