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.
WILDNESS
wildness
(noun) an intractably barbarous or uncultivated state of nature
wildness
(noun) an unruly disposition to do as one pleases; “Liza had always had a tendency to wildness”; “the element of wildness in his behavior was a protest against repressive convention”
ferocity, fierceness, furiousness, fury, vehemence, violence, wildness
(noun) the property of being wild or turbulent; “the storm’s violence”
wildness, abandon
(noun) a feeling of extreme emotional intensity; “the wildness of his anger”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
wildness (countable and uncountable, plural wildnesses)
the quality of being wild or untamed
Anagrams
• Swindles, swindles, windless
Source: Wiktionary
Wild"ness, n.
Definition: The quality or state of being wild; an uncultivated or untamed state; disposition to rove or go unrestrained; rudeness; savageness; irregularity; distraction.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
Word of the Day
12 January 2025
HABIT
(noun) (psychology) an automatic pattern of behavior in reaction to a specific situation; may be inherited or acquired through frequent repetition; “owls have nocturnal habits”; “she had a habit twirling the ends of her hair”; “long use had hardened him to it”
Coffee Trivia
