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.
NABKS
Noun
nabks
plural of nabk
Anagrams
• Banks, Knabs, banks, knabs
Source: Wiktionary
NABK
Nabk, n. Etym: [Ar. nabiqa,nibqa.] (Bot.)
Definition: The edible berries of the Zizyphys Lotus, a tree of Northern Africa, and Southwestern Europe. [Written also nubk.] See Lotus (b), and Sadr.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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SCHNORR
(verb) obtain or seek to obtain by cadging or wheedling; “he is always shnorring cigarettes from his friends”
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