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.
BEPUFF
Etymology
Verb
bepuff (third-person singular simple present bepuffs, present participle bepuffing, simple past and past participle bepuffed)
(archaic) To puff out.
(archaic, transitive) To puff; praise fulsomely; bepraise.
Synonyms
• hype
Source: Wiktionary
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