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.
SLOTTER
Etymology 1
Noun
slotter (plural slotters)
Agent noun of slot; someone or something that slots.
(engineering) A tool used to make a mortise, or to shape the sides of an aperture.
Etymology 2
Noun
slotter (uncountable)
Filth.
Verb
slotter (third-person singular simple present slotters, present participle slottering, simple past and past participle slottered)
(transitive) To make filthy; to foul.
Anagrams
• Lotters, Stotler, Trostle, lettors, settlor, tetrols, tolters, tortles
Source: Wiktionary
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