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.
BAGEL
bagel, beigel
(noun) (Yiddish) glazed yeast-raised doughnut-shaped roll with hard crust
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
bagel (plural bagels)
A toroidal bread roll that is boiled before it is baked.
(tennis, slang) A score of 6-0 in a set (after the shape of a bagel, which looks like a zero).
(slang, ethnic slur, South Africa) An overly materialistic and selfish young Jewish man.
Synonyms
• (spoiled young Jewish man): JAP (US), kugel (South Africa)
Verb
bagel (third-person singular simple present bagels, present participle bagelling, simple past and past participle bagelled)
(tennis) To achieve a score of 6-0 in a tennis set.
(sports) To hold an opponent to a score of zero.
Anagrams
• Gable, Gebal, gabel, gable, galbe, gleba
Source: Wiktionary
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MOTIVE
(adjective) impelling to action; “it may well be that ethical language has primarily a motivative function”- Arthur Pap; “motive pleas”; “motivating arguments”
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