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.
STUMPIER
STUMPY
chunky, dumpy, low-set, squat, squatty, stumpy
(adjective) short and thick; as e.g. having short legs and heavy musculature; “some people seem born to be square and chunky”; “a dumpy little dumpling of a woman”; “dachshunds are long lowset dogs with drooping ears”; “a little church with a squat tower”; “a squatty red smokestack”; “a stumpy ungainly figure”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Adjective
stumpier
comparative form of stumpy
Anagrams
• Rumpties, Trumpies, impurest, imputers
Source: Wiktionary
STUMPY
Stump"y, a.
1. Full of stumps; hard; strong.
2. Short and thick; stubby. [Colloq.] "A stumpy little man." J. C. Harris.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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