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.
SCRUBBIEST
SCRUBBY
scrawny, scrubby, stunted
(adjective) inferior in size or quality; “scrawny cattle”; “scrubby cut-over pine”; “old stunted thorn trees”
scrabbly, scrubby
(adjective) sparsely covered with stunted trees or vegetation and underbrush; “open scrubby woods”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Adjective
scrubbiest
superlative form of scrubby: most scrubby
Source: Wiktionary
SCRUBBY
Scrub"by, a. [Compar. Scrubbier; superl. Scrubbiest.]
Definition: Of the nature of scrub; small and mean; stunted in growth; as, a scrubby cur. "Dense, scrubby woods." Duke of Argull.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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