FESTY

Etymology 1

Adjective

festy (comparative more festy, superlative most festy)

(Australia, slang) Disgusting.

(Australia, slang) Very bad, dreadful.

Etymology 2

Noun

festy (plural festies)

(slang) A festival.

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

24 May 2025

EARTHSHAKING

(adjective) sufficiently significant to affect the whole world; “earthshaking proposals”; “the contest was no world-shaking affair”; “the conversation...could hardly be called world-shattering”


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Coffee Trivia

The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.

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