Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world. Each year Brazil exports more than 44 million bags of coffee. Vietnam follows at exporting over 27 million bags each year.
GARISH
brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy
(adjective) tastelessly showy; “a flash car”; “a flashy ring”; “garish colors”; “a gaudy costume”; “loud sport shirts”; “a meretricious yet stylish book”; “tawdry ornaments”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
garish (comparative more garish, superlative most garish)
Overly ostentatious; so colourful as to be in bad taste. [from 1540s]
Synonym: Thesaurus:gaudy
Anagrams
• Harigs, girahs, girsha
Source: Wiktionary
Gar"ish, a. Etym: [Cf. OE. gauren to stare; of uncertain origin. Cf. gairish.]
1. Showy; dazzling; ostentatious; attracting or exciting attention. "The garish sun." "A garish flag." Shak. "In . . . garish colors." Asham. "The garish day." J. H. Newman. Garish like the laughters of drunkenness. Jer. Taylor.
2. Gay to extravagance; flighty. It makes the mind loose and garish. South.
– Gar"ish*ly, adv.
– Garish*ness, n. Jer. Taylor.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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