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.
SHIPPENS
Noun
shippens
plural of shippen
Source: Wiktionary
SHIPPEN
Ship"pen, n. Etym: [AS. scypen. Cf. Shop, Shepen.]
Definition: A stable; a cowhouse. [Obs. or Prov.Eng.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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SHTIK
(noun) (Yiddish) a little; a piece; “give him a shtik cake”; “he’s a shtik crazy”; “he played a shtik Beethoven”
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