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.
KNEEPAN
patella, kneecap, kneepan
(noun) a small flat triangular bone in front of the knee that protects the knee joint
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
kneepan (plural kneepans)
The kneecap; the patella.
Source: Wiktionary
Knee"pan`, n. (Anat.)
Definition: A roundish, flattened, sesamoid bone in the tendon in front of the knee joint; the patella; the kneecap.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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SHTIK
(noun) (Yiddish) a little; a piece; “give him a shtik cake”; “he’s a shtik crazy”; “he played a shtik Beethoven”
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