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.
STUPOR
grogginess, stupor, stupefaction, semiconsciousness
(noun) marginal consciousness; “his grogginess was caused as much by exhaustion as by the blows”; “someone stole his wallet while he was in a drunken stupor”
daze, shock, stupor
(noun) the feeling of distress and disbelief that you have when something bad happens accidentally; “his mother’s death left him in a daze”; “he was numb with shock”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
stupor (countable and uncountable, plural stupors)
A state of reduced consciousness or sensibility.
A state in which one has difficulty in thinking or using one’s senses.
Verb
stupor (third-person singular simple present stupors, present participle stuporing, simple past and past participle stupored)
(transitive) To place into a stupor; to stupefy.
Anagrams
• Portus, Proust, Sprout, Stroup, Troups, sprout
Source: Wiktionary
Stu"por, n. Etym: [L., from stupere to be struck senseless.]
1. Great diminution or suspension of sensibility; suppression of sense or feeling; lethargy.
2. Intellectual insensibility; moral stupidity; heedlessness or inattention to one's interests.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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