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.
POOPED
Adjective
pooped (comparative more pooped, superlative most pooped)
(slang) Tired; exhausted.
(nautical) Fitted or furnished with a poop.
(nautical) Having had a wave come over the stern from abaft.
Synonyms
• (tired): See also fatigued
Verb
pooped
simple past tense and past participle of poop
Source: Wiktionary
Pooped, p. p. & a. (Naut.) (a) Having a poop; furnished with a poop. (b) Struck on the poop.
POOP
Poop, n. (Arch.)
Definition: See 2d Poppy.
Poop, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Pooped; p. pr. & vb. n. Pooping.] Etym: [Cf. D. poepen. See Pop.]
Definition: To make a noise; to pop; also, to break wind.
Poop, n. Etym: [F. poupe; cf. Sp. & Pg. popa, It. poppa; all fr. L. puppis.] (Naut.)
Definition: A deck raised above the after part of a vessel; the hindmost or after part of a vessel's hull; also, a cabin covered by such a deck. See Poop deck, under Deck. See also Roundhouse. With wind in poop, the vessel plows the sea. Dryden. The poop was beaten gold. Shak.
Poop, v. t. (Naut.) (a) To break over the poop or stern, as a wave. "A sea which he thought was going to poop her." Lord Dufferin. (b) To strike in the stern, as by collision.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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