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.
fudged
simple past tense and past participle of fudge
Source: Wiktionary
Fudge, n. Etym: [Cf. Prov. F. fuche, feuche, an interj. of contempt.]
Definition: A made-up story; stuff; nonsense; humbug; -- often an exclamation of contempt.
Fudge, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fudged; p. pr. & vb. n. Fudging.]
1. To make up; to devise; to contrive; to fabricate. Fudged up into such a smirkish liveliness. N. Fairfax.
2. To foist; to interpolate. That last "suppose" is fudged in. Foote .
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
27 May 2025
(noun) the property of being directional or maintaining a direction; “the directionality of written English is from left to right”
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.