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.
COOKY
cookie, cooky, biscuit
(noun) any of various small flat sweet cakes (‘biscuit’ is the British term)
cookie, cooky
(noun) the cook on a ranch or at a camp
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Noun
cooky (plural cookies)
Dated spelling of cookie.
Etymology 2
Adjective
cooky
Misspelling of kooky.
Source: Wiktionary
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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