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.
STUPEFY
stun, stupefy
(verb) make senseless or dizzy by or as if by a blow; “stun fish”
perplex, vex, stick, get, puzzle, mystify, baffle, beat, pose, bewilder, flummox, stupefy, nonplus, gravel, amaze, dumbfound
(verb) be a mystery or bewildering to; “This beats me!”; “Got me--I don’t know the answer!”; “a vexing problem”; “This question really stuck me”
besot, stupefy
(verb) make dull or stupid or muddle with drunkenness or infatuation
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
stupefy (third-person singular simple present stupefies, present participle stupefying, simple past and past participle stupefied)
(transitive) To dull the senses or capacity to think thereby reducing responsiveness; to dazzle or stun.
Source: Wiktionary
Stu"pe*fy, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stupefied; p. pr. & vb. n. Stupefying.] Etym: [F. stupéfier, fr. L. stupere to be stupefied + ficare (in comp.) to make, akin to facere. See Stupid, Fact, and cf. Stupefacient.] [Written also stupify, especially in England.]
1. To make stupid; to make dull; to blunt the faculty of perception or understanding in; to deprive of sensibility; to make torpid. The fumes of drink discompose and stupefy the brain. South.
2. To deprive of material mobility. [Obs.] It is not malleable; but yet is not fluent, but stupefied. Bacon.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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