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.
LOUSY
lousy
(adjective) infested with lice; āburned their lousy clothesā
icky, crappy, lousy, rotten, shitty, stinking, stinky
(adjective) very bad; āa lousy playā; āitās a stinking worldā
dirty, filthy, lousy
(adjective) vile; despicable; āa dirty (or lousy) trickā; āa filthy traitorā
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
lousy (comparative lousier, superlative lousiest)
Remarkably bad; of poor quality, dirty, or underhanded; mean, contemptible.
Synonym: miserable
Infested with lice.
(colloquial, usually with with) Filled or packed (with something, usually bad).
Synonyms: inundated, jam-packed, teeming
Usage notes
• Considered an offensive insult prior to World War II, implying filthiness. Now considered a mild or rather dated term.
Source: Wiktionary
Lous"y, a.
1. Infested with lice.
2. Mean; contemptible; as, lousy knave. [Vulgar] Such lousy learning as this is. Bale.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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