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.
RUNCH
Noun
runch (plural runches)
The wild radish.
Verb
runch (third-person singular simple present runches, present participle runching, simple past and past participle runched)
(Scotland, transitive) To grind, as with the teeth; to crunch.
Anagrams
• churn
Source: Wiktionary
Runch, n. (Bot.)
Definition: The wild radish. Dr. Prior.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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