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.
JUTS
Noun
juts
plural of jut
Verb
juts
third-person singular of jut
Anagrams
• UJTs, just
Source: Wiktionary
JUT
Jut, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Jutted; p. pr. & vb. n. Jutting.] Etym: [A corruption of jet.]
1. To shoot out or forward; to project beyond the main body; as, the jutting part of a building. "In jutting rock and curved shore." Wordsworth. It seems to jut out of the structure of the poem. Sir T. Browne.
2. To butt. [Obs.] "The jutting steer." Mason.
Jut, n.
1. That which projects or juts; a projection.
2. A shove; a push. [Obs.] Udall.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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