BUCKIES

Noun

buckies

plural of bucky

Source: Wiktionary


BUCKIE

Buck"ie, n. (Zoöl.)

Definition: A large spiral marine shell, esp. the common whelk. See Buccinum. [Scot.] Deil's buckie, a perverse, refractory youngster. [Slang]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Coffee Trivia

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.

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