Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
BUGGIEST
BUGGY
buggy
(adjective) infested with bugs
balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kooky, kookie, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, around the bend, wacky, whacky
(adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular; “it used to drive my husband balmy”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Adjective
buggiest
superlative form of buggy: most buggy
Source: Wiktionary
BUGGY
Bug"gy, a. Etym: [From Bug.]
Definition: Infested or abounding with bugs.
Bug"gy, n.; pl. Buggies.
1. A light one horse two-wheeled vehicle. [Eng.] Villebeck prevailed upon Flora to drive with him to the race in a buggy. Beaconsfield.
2. A light, four-wheeled vehicle, usually with one seat, and with or without a calash top. [U.S.] Buggy cultivator, a cultivator with a seat for the driver.
– Buggy plow, a plow, or set of plows, having a seat for the driver; -- called also sulky plow.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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