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.
GANGLY
gangling, gangly, lanky
(adjective) tall and thin
gangling, gangly, lanky, rangy
(adjective) tall and thin and having long slender limbs; “a gangling teenager”; “a lanky kid transformed almost overnight into a handsome young man”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Adjective
gangly (comparative ganglier, superlative gangliest)
Tall and thin, especially so as to cause physical awkwardness.
Synonyms
• See also scrawny
• lanky
Source: Wiktionary
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