Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.
STRIDULATE
stridulate, clitter
(verb) make a shrill creaking noise by rubbing together special bodily structures; “male insects such as crickets or grasshoppers stridulate”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
stridulate (third-person singular simple present stridulates, present participle stridulating, simple past and past participle stridulated)
(intransitive) To make a high-pitched chirping, grating, hissing, or squeaking sound, as male crickets and grasshoppers do, by rubbing certain body parts together.
Synonyms: chirp, chirr
Source: Wiktionary
Strid"u*late, v. t. Etym: [See Stridulous.]
Definition: To make a shrill, creaking noise; specifically (Zoöl.),
Definition: to make a shrill or musical sound, such as is made by the males of many insects.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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