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.
SLOWPOKE
plodder, slowpoke, stick-in-the-mud, slowcoach
(noun) someone who moves slowly; “in England they call a slowpoke a slowcoach”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
slowpoke (plural slowpokes)
(US, Canada, mildly, derogatory) A person who moves slowly or takes a long time to do something.
Synonyms
• plodder
• sluggard
• (UK equivalent) slowcoach
Source: Wiktionary
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INITIALISM
(noun) an abbreviation formed from the initial letters of the several words in the name and pronounced separately; “HTML is an initialism for HyperText Markup Language”
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