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.
UPTALK
Etymology
Noun
uptalk (uncountable)
(linguistics) Speech that has a rising intonation at the end of a sentence, as if it were a question; upspeak.
Verb
uptalk (third-person singular simple present uptalks, present participle uptalking, simple past and past participle uptalked)
(linguistics, intransitive) To speak with a rising intonation at the end of a sentence, as if it were a question; to upspeak.
Synonyms
• upspeak
Anagrams
• talk up
Source: Wiktionary
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UNAMBIGUOUS
(adjective) having or exhibiting a single clearly defined meaning; “As a horror, apartheid...is absolutely unambiguous”- Mario Vargas Llosa
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