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.
SNOTTER
Etymology 1
Noun
snotter (plural snotters)
(nautical) A rope going over a yardarm, used to bend a tripping line to, in sending down topgallant and royal yards in vessels of war; also, the short line supporting the heel of the sprit in a small boat.
Etymology 2
Verb
snotter (third-person singular simple present snotters, present participle snottering, simple past and past participle snottered)
(intransitive) To snivel; to cry or whine.
Noun
snotter (countable and uncountable, plural snotters)
The wattles of a turkey-cock.
(Scotland) Snot; mucus.
Anagrams
• Stentor, stentor
Source: Wiktionary
Snot"ter, v. i. Etym: [From Snot.]
Definition: To snivel; to cry or whine. [Prov. Eng.] Grose.
Snot"ter, n. Etym: [Etymol. uncertain.] (Naut.)
Definition: A rope going over a yardarm, used to bend a tripping line to, in sending down topgallant and royal yards in vessels of war; also, the short line supporting the heel of the sprit in a small boat.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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