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.
SMOG
smog, smogginess
(noun) air pollution by a mixture of smoke and fog
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
smog (countable and uncountable, plural smogs)
A noxious mixture of particulates and gases that is the result of urban air pollution.
Synonyms: pea-souper, pea-soup fog
Hyponyms
• black smog (combination of smoke and fog; stereotypical 19th century London smog)
• photochemical smog (brown haze and ozone; stereotypical 1980s Los Angeles afternoon smog)
• summer smog
Verb
smog (third-person singular simple present smogs, present participle smogging, simple past and past participle smogged)
(informal) To get a smog check; to check a vehicle or have it checked for emissions.
Anagrams
• GMOs, goms, mogs
Source: Wiktionary
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HEEDLESS
(adjective) marked by or paying little heed or attention; “We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics”--Franklin D. Roosevelt; “heedless of danger”; “heedless of the child’s crying”
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