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.
COOKIES
Noun
cookies
plural of cookie
(dated) plural of cooky
Verb
cookies
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cookie
Source: Wiktionary
COOKIE
Cook"ey, Cook"ie, n.
Definition: See Cooky.
COOKY
Cook"y, n.; pl. Cookies. Etym: [Cf. D. koek cake, dim. koekje; akin to G. kuchen, E. cake; or cf. OE. coket, prob., a sort of cake, and prob. of French origin.]
Definition: A small, flat, sweetened cake of various kinds.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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