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.
BLEEPING
Verb
bleeping
present participle of bleep
Adjective
bleeping (not comparable)
(UK, euphemistic, slang) A generic intensifier which can be substituted for any profane intensifier.
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SUPERFETATION
(noun) fertilization of a second ovum after a pregnancy has begun; results in two fetuses of different ages in the uterus at the same time; “superfetation is normal in some animal species”
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