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.
SPITTER
spitball, spitter
(noun) an illegal pitch in which a foreign substance (spit or Vaseline) is applied to the ball by the pitcher before he throws it
spitter, expectorator
(noun) a person who spits (ejects saliva or phlegm from the mouth)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Noun
spitter (plural spitters)
One who puts meat on a spit.
A young deer whose antlers are beginning to shoot or become sharp; a brocket, or pricket.
Etymology 2
Noun
spitter (plural spitters)
One who spits.
(baseball) A spitball.
Anagrams
• Pitters, pitters, tipster
Source: Wiktionary
Spit"ter, n. Etym: [See Spit to eject from the mouth.]
Definition: One who ejects saliva from the mouth.
Spit"ter, n. Etym: [See Spit an iron prong.]
1. One who puts meat on a spit.
2. (Zoöl.)
Definition: A young deer whose antlers begin to shoot or become sharp; a brocket, or pricket.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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OBLIQUE
(adjective) slanting or inclined in direction or course or position--neither parallel nor perpendicular nor right-angled; “the oblique rays of the winter sun”; “acute and obtuse angles are oblique angles”; “the axis of an oblique cone is not perpendicular to its base”
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