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.
SPOONS
Noun
spoons
plural of spoon
A child's card game.
(musical instrument) A pair of spoons used as a musical instrument by tapping them on parts of the body.
Verb
spoons
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of spoon
Adjective
spoons (not comparable)
(slang, archaic) Foolishly infatuated with; having a romantic crush on (used with on).
Anagrams
• snoops
Etymology
Shortening.
Proper noun
Spoons
(UK, slang) Any pub belonging to the Wetherspoons chain.
Anagrams
• snoops
Source: Wiktionary
SPOON
Spoon, v. i. (Naut.)
Definition: See Spoom. [Obs.] We might have spooned before the wind as well as they. Pepys.
Spoon, n. Etym: [OE. spon, AS. sp, a chip; akin to D. spaan, G. span, Dan. spaan, Sw. spån, Icel. spánn, spónn, a chip, a spoon. sq. root170. Cf. Span-new.]
1. An implement consisting of a small bowl (usually a shallow oval) with a handle, used especially in preparing or eating food. "Therefore behoveth him a full long spoon That shall eat with a fiend," thus heard I say. Chaucer. He must have a long spoon that must eat with the devil. Shak.
2. Anything which resembles a spoon in shape; esp. (Fishing), a spoon bait.
3. Fig.: A simpleton; a spooney. [Slang] Hood. Spoon bait (Fishing), a lure used in trolling, consisting of a glistening metallic plate shaped like the bowl of a spoon with a fishhook attached.
– Spoon bit, a bit for boring, hollowed or furrowed along one side.
– Spoon net, a net for landing fish.
– Spoon oar. see under Oar.
Spoon, v. t.
Definition: To take up in, a spoon.
Spoon, v. i.
Definition: To act with demonstrative or foolish fondness, as one in love. [Colloq.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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