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.
SIMILE
simile
(noun) a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with ‘like’ or ‘as’)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
simile (countable and uncountable, plural similes or similia)
A figure of speech in which one thing is compared to another, in the case of English generally using like or as.
Hypernyms
• figure of speech
Antonyms
• dissimile
Anagrams
• mislie, smilie
Source: Wiktionary
Simi"*le, n.; pl. Similes. Etym: [L., from similis. See Similar.] (Rhet.)
Definition: A word or phrase by which anything is likened, in one or more of its aspects, to something else; a similitude; a poetical or imaginative comparison. A good swift simile, but something currish. Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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