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.
TUSSLE
hassle, scuffle, tussle, dogfight, rough-and-tumble
(noun) disorderly fighting
muss, tussle
(verb) make messy or untidy; “the child mussed up my hair”
scuffle, tussle
(verb) fight or struggle in a confused way at close quarters; “the drunken men started to scuffle”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
tussle (plural tussles)
A physical fight or struggle.
A conflict, an argument, a disagreement.
Verb
tussle (third-person singular simple present tussles, present participle tussling, simple past and past participle tussled)
To have a tussle.
Anagrams
• sutles
Source: Wiktionary
Tus"sle, v. i. & t. Etym: [See Tousle.]
Definition: To struggle, as in sport; to scuffle; to struggle with. [Colloq.]
Tus"sle, n.
Definition: A struggle; a scuffle. [Colloq.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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