In 1511, leaders in Mecca believed coffee stimulated radical thinking and outlawed the drink. In 1524, the leaders overturned that order, and people could drink coffee again.
DRIPPY
bathetic, drippy, hokey, maudlin, mawkish, kitschy, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, sappy, soppy, soupy, slushy
(adjective) effusively or insincerely emotional; “a bathetic novel”; “maudlin expressions of sympathy”; “mushy effusiveness”; “a schmaltzy song”; “sentimental soap operas”; “slushy poetry”
drippy
(adjective) leaking in drops; “a drippy faucet”
drippy, drizzly
(adjective) wet with light rain; “a sad drizzly day”; “a wet drippy day”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
drippy (comparative drippier, superlative drippiest)
Dripping or tending to drip.
Rainy or wet.
Maudlin, tiresome or annoying;
Source: Wiktionary
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