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.
FLACKER
Etymology
Verb
flacker (third-person singular simple present flackers, present participle flackering, simple past and past participle flackered)
(intransitive) To flutter like a bird.
(intransitive) To flicker; to quiver.
Anagrams
• Fackler
Source: Wiktionary
Flack"er, v. i. Etym: [OE. flakeren, fr. flacken to move quickly to and fro; cf. icel. flakka to rove about, AS. flacor fluttering, flying, G. flackern to flare, flicker.]
Definition: To flutter, as a bird. [Prov. Eng.] Grose.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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