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.
SNOTTER
Etymology 1
Noun
snotter (plural snotters)
(nautical) A rope going over a yardarm, used to bend a tripping line to, in sending down topgallant and royal yards in vessels of war; also, the short line supporting the heel of the sprit in a small boat.
Etymology 2
Verb
snotter (third-person singular simple present snotters, present participle snottering, simple past and past participle snottered)
(intransitive) To snivel; to cry or whine.
Noun
snotter (countable and uncountable, plural snotters)
The wattles of a turkey-cock.
(Scotland) Snot; mucus.
Anagrams
• Stentor, stentor
Source: Wiktionary
Snot"ter, v. i. Etym: [From Snot.]
Definition: To snivel; to cry or whine. [Prov. Eng.] Grose.
Snot"ter, n. Etym: [Etymol. uncertain.] (Naut.)
Definition: A rope going over a yardarm, used to bend a tripping line to, in sending down topgallant and royal yards in vessels of war; also, the short line supporting the heel of the sprit in a small boat.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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THOUGHTLESS
(adjective) without care or thought for others; “the thoughtless saying of a great princess on being informed that the people had no bread; ‘Let them eat cake’”
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