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.
FLYAWAY
flyaway
(adjective) (of hair or clothing) worn loose; “her flyaway hair”; “a flyaway coat”
flighty, flyaway, head-in-the-clouds, scatterbrained
(adjective) guided by whim and fancy; “flighty young girls”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
flyaway (not comparable)
Disposed to fly away; unrestrained; light and free.
Flighty; frivolous
(of hair) Soft, light, unruly, and difficult to set into a style.
Noun
flyaway (plural flyaways)
A stray hair that is difficult to style.
Anything that is difficult to capture or restrain.
(gymnastics) A kind of dismount from bars that incorporates one or more flips or twists.
Source: Wiktionary
Fly"a*way`, a.
Definition: Disposed to fly away; flighty; unrestrained; light and free; -- used of both persons and things. -- n.
Definition: A flyaway person or thing. "Truth is such a flyaway." Emerson.
flyaway adj.
1. frivolous; -- of people. serious Syn. -- flighty. [WordNet 1.5]
2. Tending to move away from a center, rather than remain in a compact group; -- used of hair or clothing or of small particles of matter. Light objects or particles readily taking a static electric charge may be moved apart by acquisition of a charge, or by approach of a charged object. Such a property is called flyaway. Syn. -- fluttering. [WordNet 1.5]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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