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.
SLUSHY
bathetic, drippy, hokey, maudlin, mawkish, kitschy, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, sappy, soppy, soupy, slushy
(adjective) effusively or insincerely emotional; “a bathetic novel”; “maudlin expressions of sympathy”; “mushy effusiveness”; “a schmaltzy song”; “sentimental soap operas”; “slushy poetry”
slushy
(adjective) being or resembling melting snow; “slushy snow”; “deep slushy mud”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
slushy (comparative slushier, superlative slushiest)
Covered in slush.
Having the consistency of slush.
(of a person) Soupy.
Noun
slushy (plural slushies)
Alternative form of slushie (“flavoured frozen drink made with ice crystals”)
(Australia, colloquial, slang) A kitchen helper.
Source: Wiktionary
Slush"y, a.
Definition: Abounding in slush; characterized by soft mud or half-melted snow; as, the streets are slushy; the snow is slushy. "A dark, drizzling, slushy day." Blackw. Mag.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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