Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be āsatanic.ā However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
SKUNKED
Verb
skunked
simple past tense and past participle of skunk
Adjective
skunked (comparative more skunked, superlative most skunked)
(slang) Intoxicated by alcohol or recreational drugs.
(slang) Having caught no fish at all when on a fishing trip.
(slang) Having seen no birds at all when on a birding trip.
Source: Wiktionary
SKUNK
Skunk, n. Etym: [Contr. from the Abenaki (American Indian) seganku.] (Zoƶl.)
Definition: Any one of several species of American musteline carnivores of the genus Mephitis and allied genera. They have two glands near the anus, secreting an extremely fetid liquid, which the animal ejects at pleasure as a means of defense.
Note: The common species of the Eastern United States (Mephitis mephitica) is black with more or less white on the body and tail. The spotted skunk (Spilogale putorius), native of the Southwestern United States and Mexico, is smaller than the common skunk, and is variously marked with black and white. Skunk bird, Skunk blackbird (Zoƶl.), the bobolink; -- so called because the male, in the breeding season, is black and white, like a skunk.
– Skunk cabbage (Bot.), an American aroid herb (Symplocarpus foetidus) having a reddish hornlike spathe in earliest spring, followed by a cluster of large cabbagelike leaves. It exhales a disagreeable odor. Also called swamp cabbage.
– Skunk porpoise. (Zoƶl.) See under Porpoise.
Skunk, v. t.
Definition: In games of chance and skill: To defeat (an opponent) (as in cards) so that he fails to gain a point, or (in checkers) to get a king. [Colloq.
Definition: U. S.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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