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.
SCRAWNY
scraggy, scraggly, boney, bony, scrawny, skinny, underweight, weedy
(adjective) being very thin; “a child with skinny freckled legs”; “a long scrawny neck”; “pale bony hands”
scrawny, scrubby, stunted
(adjective) inferior in size or quality; “scrawny cattle”; “scrubby cut-over pine”; “old stunted thorn trees”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
scrawny (comparative scrawnier, superlative scrawniest)
Thin, malnourished and weak.
Synonyms
• See also scrawny
Source: Wiktionary
Scraw"ny, a. Etym: [Cf. Scrannel.]
Definition: Meager; thin; rawboned; bony; scranny.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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