Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be âsatanic.â However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
SNARK
Etymology
Proper noun
Snark
A fictional animal in Lewis Carrollâs The Hunting of the Snark.
A ketch built by Jack London named after Lewis Carroll's poem The Hunting of the Snark
Anagrams
• ARNKs, Karns, KrÅ¡an, Ká¹á¹£á¹a, karns, knars, krans, narks, ranks, skarn
Etymology 1
Noun
snark (uncountable)
Snide remarks.
Synonym: sarcasm
Verb
snark (third-person singular simple present snarks, present participle snarking, simple past and past participle snarked)
To express oneself in a snarky fashion.
(obsolete) To snort.
Etymology 2
Noun
snark (plural snarks)
(mathematics) A graph in which every node has three branches, and the edges cannot be coloured in fewer than four colours without two edges of the same colour meeting at a point.
(particle) A fluke or unrepeatable result or detection in an experiment.
Anagrams
• ARNKs, Karns, KrÅ¡an, Ká¹á¹£á¹a, karns, knars, krans, narks, ranks, skarn
Source: Wiktionary
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