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.
SNOOZE
nap, catnap, light sleep, short sleep, forty winks, snooze
(noun) sleeping for a short period of time (usually not in bed)
snooze, drowse, doze
(verb) sleep lightly or for a short period of time
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
snooze (third-person singular simple present snoozes, present participle snoozing, simple past and past participle snoozed)
(intransitive) To sleep, especially briefly; to nap, doze.
(transitive) To pause; to postpone for a short while.
Noun
snooze (plural snoozes)
A brief period of sleep; a nap.
Synonym: Thesaurus:sleep
(informal) The snooze button on an alarm clock.
(informal) Something boring.
Anagrams
• ozones
Source: Wiktionary
Snooze, n. Etym: [Scot. snooze to sleep; cf. Dan. & Sw. snus snuff.]
Definition: A short sleep; a nap. [Colloq.]
Snooze, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Snoozed; p. pr. & vb. n. Snoozing.]
Definition: To doze; to drowse; to take a short nap; to slumber. [Colloq.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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