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.
SNEAKER
fink, snitch, snitcher, stoolpigeon, stool pigeon, stoolie, sneak, sneaker, canary
(noun) someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
sneaker (plural sneakers)
One who sneaks.
• Charles Lamb
(US, Atlantic Canada, New Zealand) An athletic shoe with a soft, rubber sole.
(UK, dialect, archaic) A vessel of drink.
• Spectator
(biology) A sneaker male.
Synonyms
• (sports shoes): kicks, tennis shoe (US), trainer (UK), runner (Australia), running shoe, see also sports shoe
Hypernyms
• sports shoe
Anagrams
• Keerans, Keresan
Source: Wiktionary
Sneak"er, n.
1. One who sneaks. Lamb.
2. A vessel of drink. [Prov. Eng.] A sneaker of five gallons. Spectator.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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ROOTS
(noun) the condition of belonging to a particular place or group by virtue of social or ethnic or cultural lineage; “his roots in Texas go back a long way”; “he went back to Sweden to search for his roots”; “his music has African roots”
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