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.
SCAMPISH
Etymology
Adjective
scampish (comparative more scampish, superlative most scampish)
Resembling a scamp; knavish.
Anagrams
• scaphism
Source: Wiktionary
Scamp"ish, a.
Definition: Of or like a scamp; knavish; as, scampish conduct.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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(noun) small asexual fruiting body resembling a cushion or blister consisting of a mat of hyphae that is produced on a host by some fungi
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