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.
JUNKIE
addict, nut, freak, junkie, junky
(noun) someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction; “a golf addict”; “a car nut”; “a bodybuilding freak”; “a news junkie”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
junkie (plural junkies)
(slang, pejorative) A narcotics addict, especially a heroin user.
Synonyms: drug addict, Thesaurus:addict
(slang, by extension) An enthusiast of something.
Synonyms: aficionado, enthusiast, Thesaurus:fan
Source: Wiktionary
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ROOTS
(noun) the condition of belonging to a particular place or group by virtue of social or ethnic or cultural lineage; “his roots in Texas go back a long way”; “he went back to Sweden to search for his roots”; “his music has African roots”
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