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.
PUTZ
cock, prick, dick, shaft, pecker, tool, putz
(noun) obscene terms for penis
putz
(noun) (Yiddish) a fool; an idiot
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Noun
putz (plural putzes)
(slang, pejorative) Fool, idiot.
(slang, pejorative) Jerk.
Synonym: schmuck
(slang) Penis.
Synonym: schmuck
Verb
putz (third-person singular simple present putzes, present participle putzing, simple past and past participle putzed)
(slang) Waste time.
Etymology 2
Noun
putz (plural putzes)
A decoration or ornament in the Nativity tradition, usually placed under a Christmas tree.
Verb
putz (third-person singular simple present putzes, present participle putzing, simple past and past participle putzed)
(Pennsylvania Dutch) To go around viewing the putzes in the neighborhood.
Source: Wiktionary
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HEEDLESS
(adjective) marked by or paying little heed or attention; “We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics”--Franklin D. Roosevelt; “heedless of danger”; “heedless of the child’s crying”
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