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.
POKIEST
POKY
jerkwater, one-horse, pokey, poky
(adjective) small and remote and insignificant; “a jerkwater college”; “passed a series of poky little one-horse towns”
dilatory, laggard, poky, pokey
(adjective) wasting time
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Adjective
pokiest
superlative form of poky: most poky
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Source: Wiktionary
POKEY
Pok"ey, a.
Definition: See Poky.
POKY
Pok"y, a. Etym: [Written also pokey.]
1. Confined; cramped. [Prov. Eng.]
2. Dull; tedious; uninteresting. [Colloq.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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GREAT
(adjective) remarkable or out of the ordinary in degree or magnitude or effect; “a great crisis”; “had a great stake in the outcome”
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