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.
SPOOF
parody, lampoon, spoof, sendup, send-up, mockery, takeoff, burlesque, travesty, pasquinade, put-on
(noun) a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody’s style, usually in a humorous way
spoof, burlesque, parody
(verb) make a parody of; “The students spoofed the teachers”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Noun
spoof (countable and uncountable, plural spoofs)
(countable) An act of deception; a hoax; a joking prank. [from 1889]
(countable) A light parody. [from 1958]
(countable, Britain, historical) A drinking game in which players hold up to three (or another specified number of) coins hidden in a fist and attempt to guess the total number of coins held.
(uncountable) Nonsense.
Synonyms
• (light parody): parody, satire, send-up/sendup
Adjective
spoof (not comparable)
Fake, hoax.
Verb
spoof (third-person singular simple present spoofs, present participle spoofing, simple past and past participle spoofed)
(transitive) To gently satirize. [from 1914]
(transitive) To deceive.
(transitive, computing) To falsify.
Synonyms
• (to gently satirize): satirise/satirize, send up
Etymology 2
Noun
spoof (uncountable)
(Australian, New Zealand, slang) Semen.
Synonyms
• See semen
Verb
spoof (third-person singular simple present spoofs, present participle spoofing, simple past and past participle spoofed)
(Australia, New Zealand, slang) To ejaculate, to come.
Synonyms
• See ejaculate
Anagrams
• poofs
Source: Wiktionary
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