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.
SLOVEN
slob, sloven, pig, slovenly person
(noun) a coarse obnoxious person
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
sloven (plural slovens)
A habitually dirty or untidy man or boy; the male equivalent of slattern, or slut.
A low, base, lewd person.
(obsolete) An immoral woman.
Synonyms
• (man or boy habitually negligent of neatness and order): cutterman, scruff, slob; See also untidy person
• (immoral woman): See also promiscuous woman
Anagrams
• Lovens, novels
Source: Wiktionary
Slov"en, n. Etym: [D. slaf careless, negligent, a sloven; akin to LG. sluf slovenly.]
Definition: A man or boy habitually negligent of neathess and order; -- the correlative term to slattern, or slut. Pope. He became a confirmed sloven. Macaulay.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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