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.
SLUDGE
sludge
(noun) the precipitate produced by sewage treatment
sludge, slime, goo, goop, gook, guck, gunk, muck, ooze
(noun) any thick, viscous matter
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
sludge (countable and uncountable, plural sludges)
Solids separated from suspension in a liquid.
A residual semi-solid material left from industrial, water treatment, or wastewater treatment processes.
A sediment of accumulated minerals in a steam boiler.
A mass of small pieces of ice on the surface of a body of water.
(uncountable, music) sludge metal
Synonyms
• (separated solids): mud, mire, ooze, slush
Verb
sludge (third-person singular simple present sludges, present participle sludging, simple past and past participle sludged)
(intransitive, informal) To slump or slouch.
(intransitive) To slop or drip slowly.
Noun
SLUDGE
(emergency medicine, mnemonic) An acronym used to help remember the common symptoms of certain affections of a cholinergic toxidrome: "salivation, lacrimation, urination, defecation, gastrointestinal upset, emesis".
Synonyms
• DUMBELS
Source: Wiktionary
Sludge, n. Etym: [CF. Slush.]
1. Mud; mire; soft mud; slush. Mortimer. Tennyson.
2. Small floating pieces of ice, or masses of saturated snow. Kane.
3. (Mining)
Definition: See Slime, 4. Sludge hole, the hand-hole, or manhole, in a steam boiler, by means of which sediment can be removed.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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