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.
BUSHY
bushy
(adjective) resembling a bush in being thickly branched and spreading
bushy, shaggy, shaggy-haired, shaggy-coated
(adjective) used of hair; thick and poorly groomed; “bushy locks”; “a shaggy beard”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
bushy (comparative bushier, superlative bushiest)
Like a bush in having many widely spread branches.
Growing thickly.
(Racial slur) Derogatory word used to refer to Afro-textured Hair.
Anagrams
• Husby
Source: Wiktionary
Bush"y, a. Etym: [From 1st Bush.]
1. Thick and spreading, like a bush. "Bushy eyebrows." Irving.
2. Full of bushes; overgrowing with shrubs. Dingle, or bushy dell, of this wild wood. Milton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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