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.
WASPISHLY
Etymology
Adverb
waspishly (comparative more waspishly, superlative most waspishly)
In a waspish manner.
Source: Wiktionary
WASPISH
Wasp"ish, a.
1. Resembling a wasp in form; having a slender waist, like a wasp.
2. Quick to resent a trifling affront; characterized by snappishness; irritable; irascible; petulant; snappish. He was naturally a waspish and hot man. Bp. Hall. Much do I suffer, much, to keep in peace This jealous, waspish, wrong-head, rhyming race. Pope.
Syn.
– Snappish; petulant; irritable; irascible; testy; peevish; captious.
– Wasp"ish*ly, adv.
– Wasp"ish*ness, n.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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PREMATURELY
(adverb) (of childbirth) before the end of the normal period of gestation; “the child was born prematurely”
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