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.
TRAPES
Etymology 1
Verb
trapes (third-person singular simple present trapeses, present participle trapesing, simple past and past participle trapesed)
Alternative spelling of traipse in reduced usage since about WWI
Noun
trapes (plural trapeses)
Alternative spelling of traipse in reduced usage since about WWI
Etymology 2
Noun
trapes
(seldom in use since about WWII, colloquial) A slattern; an idle, sluttish, or untidy woman.
Anagrams
• Paster, Pearts, paster, paters, petars, prates, pretas, repast, repats, retaps, tapers, treaps
Source: Wiktionary
Trapes, n. Etym: [See Trape.]
Definition: A slattern; an idle, sluttish, or untidy woman. [Obs. or Colloq.]
Trapes, v. i.
Definition: To go about in an idle or slatternly fashion; to trape; to traipse. [Colloq.] Thackeray.
TRAPE
Trape, v. i. Etym: [See Tramp, and cf. Traipse.]
Definition: To walk or run about in an idle or slatternly manner; to traipse. [Obs. or Colloq.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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ONCHOCERCIASIS
(noun) infestation with slender threadlike roundworms (filaria) deposited under the skin by the bite of black fleas; when the eyes are involved it can result in blindness; common in Africa and tropical America
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