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.
SHOOGLE
Etymology
Verb
shoogle (third-person singular simple present shoogles, present participle shoogling, simple past and past participle shoogled)
(transitive, Scotland, Northern England) To shake or rock rapidly.
Noun
shoogle (plural shoogles)
An act of shoogling; a shake.
Anagrams
• goloshe
Source: Wiktionary
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