Coffee has initially been a food ā 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.
YACK
yak, yack, yakety-yak, chatter, cackle
(noun) noisy talk
yack, jaw, yack away, rattle on, yap away
(verb) talk incessantly and tiresomely
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Noun
yack (plural yacks)
Alternative form of yak (āchatter; talkā)
Verb
yack (third-person singular simple present yacks, present participle yacking, simple past and past participle yacked)
Alternative form of yak (ātalk; vomitā)
Etymology 2
Dialectal form.
Noun
yack (plural yacks)
(England, dialectal, possibly, obsolete) An oak.
Anagrams
• YKCA, caky, cyka
Source: Wiktionary
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ANALYSIS
(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., āthe father of the brideā instead of āthe brideās fatherā
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