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.
GONIF
gonif, goniff, ganef, ganof
(noun) (Yiddish) a thief or dishonest person or scoundrel (often used as a general term of abuse)
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Noun
gonif (plural gonifs or gonivim)
Alternative form of ganef
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