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.
BLOKE
chap, fellow, feller, fella, lad, gent, blighter, cuss, bloke
(noun) a boy or man; “that chap is your host”; “there’s a fellow at the door”; “he’s a likable cuss”; “he’s a good bloke”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
bloke (plural blokes)
(British, informal) A man, a fellow; an ordinary man, a man on the street. [From 1847.]
(UK) A man who behaves in a particularly laddish or overtly heterosexual manner.
(UK, naval, slang) (A lower deck term for) the Captain or Executive Officer of a warship, with particular reference to discipline and punishment.
(Australia) An exemplar of a certain masculine, independent male archetype.
(now chiefly, Quebec, colloquial) An anglophone man.
Synonyms
• See man
Coordinate terms
• sheila (Australia/New Zealand)
Anagrams
• Kolbe
Source: Wiktionary
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DIRECTIONALITY
(noun) the property of being directional or maintaining a direction; “the directionality of written English is from left to right”
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