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.
YODELLED
YODEL
yodel, warble, descant
(verb) sing by changing register; sing by yodeling; “The Austrians were yodeling in the mountains”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
yodelled
(British) simple past tense and past participle of yodel
Source: Wiktionary
YODEL
Yo"del, Yo"dle, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Yodeled, Yodled; p. pr. & vb. n. Yodeling, Yodling.] Etym: [G. jodeln.]
Definition: To sing in a manner common among the Swiss and Tyrolese mountaineers, by suddenly changing from the head voice, or falsetto, to the chest voice, and the contrary; to warble.
Yo"del, Yo"dle, n.
Definition: A song sung by yodeling, as by the Swiss mountaineers.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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