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.
UPBLOW
Etymology
Verb
upblow (third-person singular simple present upblows, present participle upblowing, simple past upblew, past participle upblown)
(transitive, archaic) To inflate.
(transitive, archaic) To explode, blow up.
(ambitransitive, archaic) To blow in an upward direction.
Anagrams
• Publow, blow up, blow-up, blowup
Source: Wiktionary
Up*blow", v. t.
Definition: To inflate. [Obs.] Spenser.
Up*blow", v. i.
Definition: To blow up; as, the wind upblows from the sea. [Obs.] Spenser.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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