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.
CROCKED
besotted, blind drunk, blotto, crocked, cockeyed, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, wet
(adjective) very drunk
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Verb
crocked
simple past tense and past participle of crock
Adjective
crocked (comparative more crocked, superlative most crocked)
(British) injured (of a person)
(British) broken (of a thing)
Synonyms
• (injured): hurt, imbrued, injured; see also wounded
• (broken): busted, inoperative, knackered; see also out of order
Etymology 2
Adjective
crocked (comparative more crocked, superlative most crocked)
(informal, North America) drunk (of a person)
Synonyms
• blotto, plastered, sottish; see also drunk
Source: Wiktionary
CROCK
Crock (krk), n. Etym: [Cf. W. croeg cover, Scot. crochit covered.]
Definition: The loose black particles collected from combustion, as on pots and kettles, or in a chimney; soot; smut; also, coloring matter which rubs off from cloth.
Crock, v. t. [imp. & p.p. Crocked (krkt); p. pr. & vb. n. Crocking.]
Definition: To soil by contact, as with soot, or with the coloring matter of badly dyed cloth.
Crock, v. i.
Definition: To give off crock or smut.
Crock, n.
Definition: A low stool. "I . . . seated her upon a little crock." Tatler.
Crock (krk), n. Etym: [AS. croc, croca, crog, croh; akin to D. kruik, G. krug, Icel. krukka, Dan. krukke, Sw. kruka; but cf. W. crwc bucket, pail, crochan pot, cregen earthen vessel, jar. Cf. Cruet.]
Definition: Any piece of crockery, especially of coarse earthenware; an earthen pot or pitcher. Like foolish flies about an honey crock. Spenser.
Crock, v. t.
Definition: To lay up in a crock; as, to crock butter. Halliwell.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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