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.
SCURRY
scamper, scramble, scurry
(noun) rushing about hastily in an undignified way
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
Etymology
Verb
scurry (third-person singular simple present scurries, present participle scurrying, simple past and past participle scurried)
To run with quick light steps, to scamper.
Synonyms
• (run with quick light steps): scamper
• (do things quickly): hurry, zoom; see also rush
Noun
scurry (plural scurries)
A dash.
Proper noun
Scurry (countable and uncountable, plural Scurrys)
A surname.
A town in Kaufman County, Texas, United States.
Statistics
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Scurry is the 13171st most common surname in the United States, belonging to 2321 individuals. Scurry is most common among Black/African American (68.5%) and White (24.9%) individuals.
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
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