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.
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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GREAT
(adjective) remarkable or out of the ordinary in degree or magnitude or effect; “a great crisis”; “had a great stake in the outcome”
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