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.
SMUDGY
smudgy
(adjective) smeared with something that soils or stains; these words are often used in combination; “oil-smeared work clothes”; “hostile faces smirched by the grime and rust”- Henry Roth; “ink-smudged fingers”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
smudgy (comparative smudgier, superlative smudgiest)
Marked with smudges.
Like a thick smoke (such as is emitted by a smudge pot).
Source: Wiktionary
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