The average annual yield from one coffee tree is the equivalent of 1 to 1 1/2 pounds of roasted coffee. It takes about 4,000 hand-picked green coffee beans to make a pound of coffee.
FULSOME
buttery, fulsome, oily, oleaginous, smarmy, soapy, unctuous
(adjective) unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech; âbuttery praiseâ; âgave him a fulsome introductionâ; âan oily sycophantic press agentâ; âoleaginous hypocrisyâ; âsmarmy self-importanceâ; âthe unctuous Uriah Heepâ; âsoapy complimentsâ
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
fulsome (comparative fulsomer, superlative fulsomest)
Offensive to good taste, tactless, overzealous, excessive.
Excessively flattering (connoting insincerity).
Marked by fullness; abundant, copious.
Fully developed; mature.
Usage notes
• Common usage tends toward the negative connotation, and using fulsome in the sense of abundant, copious, or mature may lead to confusion without contextual prompts.
Synonyms
• (offensive): gross
• (abundant, copious): profuse
• (excessively flattering): effusive, unctuous
Source: Wiktionary
Ful"some, a. Etym: [Full, a. + -some.]
1. Full; abundant; plenteous; not shriveled. [Obs.] His lean, pale, hoar, and withered corpse grew fulsome, fair, and fresh. Golding.
2. Offending or disgusting by overfullness, excess, or grossness; cloying; gross; nauseous; esp., offensive from excess of praise; as, fulsome flattery. And lest the fulsome artifice should fail Themselves will hide its coarseness with a veil. Cowper.
3. Lustful; wanton; obscene; also, tending to obscenity. [Obs.] "Fulsome ewes." Shak.
– Ful"some*ly, adv.
– Ful"some*ness, n. Dryden.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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THOUGHTLESS
(adjective) without care or thought for others; âthe thoughtless saying of a great princess on being informed that the people had no bread; âLet them eat cakeââ
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