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.
WONKY
rickety, shaky, wobbly, wonky
(adjective) inclined to shake as from weakness or defect; “a rickety table”; “a wobbly chair with shaky legs”; “the ladder felt a little wobbly”; “the bridge still stands though one of the arches is wonky”
askew, awry, cockeyed, lopsided, wonky, skew-whiff
(adjective) turned or twisted toward one side; “a...youth with a gorgeous red necktie all awry”- G.K.Chesterton; “his wig was, as the British say, skew-whiff”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Adjective
wonky (comparative wonkier, superlative wonkiest)
Lopsided, misaligned or off-centre.
Synonyms: awry, lonkie, misaligned, skew-whiff
(chiefly, British, Australia, NZ) Feeble, shaky or rickety.
Synonym: rickety
(informal, computing, especially Usenet) Suffering from intermittent bugs.
Synonyms: buggy, broken
(informal) Generally incorrect.
Noun
wonky (uncountable)
(music genre) A subgenre of electronic music employing unstable rhythms, complex time signatures, and mid-range synths.
Etymology 2
Adjective
wonky (comparative wonkier, superlative wonkiest)
Technically worded, in the style of jargon.
Anagrams
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Source: Wiktionary
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COMMUNICATIONS
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