Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.
TYMPANY
Etymology
Noun
tympany (countable and uncountable, plural tympanies)
The sound made by beating a drum.
(medicine) Tympanites (distention of the abdomen).
Inflation; conceit; bombast; turgidness.
Source: Wiktionary
Tym"pa*ny, n. Etym: [Gr. Tympanites.]
1. (Med.)
Definition: A flatulent distention of the belly; tympanites. Fuller.
2. Hence, inflation; conceit; bombast; turgidness. "Thine 's a tympany of sense." Dryden. A plethoric a tautologic tympany of sentence. De Quincey.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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