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.
UNPROPERLY
Etymology
Adverb
unproperly (comparative more unproperly, superlative most unproperly)
In an unproper manner; not properly.
Source: Wiktionary
UNPROPER
Un*prop"er, a.
Definition: Not proper or peculiar; improper. [Obs.] -- Un*prop"er*ly, adv. [Obs.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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ENDLESSLY
(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”
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