“Coffee, the favorite drink of the civilized world.” – Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States
GRIMY
begrimed, dingy, grimy, grubby, grungy, raunchy
(adjective) thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot; “a miner’s begrimed face”; “dingy linen”; “grimy hands”; “grubby little fingers”; “a grungy kitchen”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
grimy (comparative grimier, superlative grimiest)
Stained or covered with grime.
(music) From the urban musical genre called grime.
Source: Wiktionary
Grim"y, a. [Compar. Grimier; superl. Grimiest.]
Definition: Full of grime; begrimed; dirty; foul.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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SUBDUCTION
(noun) a geological process in which one edge of a crustal plate is forced sideways and downward into the mantle below another plate
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