In the 18th century, the Swedish government made coffee and its paraphernalia (including cups and dishes) illegal for its supposed ties to rebellious sentiment.
SQUIT
Etymology 1
Noun
squit (countable and uncountable, plural squits)
(derogatory, informal, countable) A person of low status.
(Norfolk, uncountable) Nonsense; amusing stories.
Etymology 2
Verb
squit (third-person singular simple present squits, present participle squitting, simple past and past participle squitted)
(transitive, internet) To disconnect (an IRC server) from a network.
Anagrams
• Quist, quist, quits
Source: Wiktionary
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EARTHSHAKING
(adjective) sufficiently significant to affect the whole world; “earthshaking proposals”; “the contest was no world-shaking affair”; “the conversation...could hardly be called world-shattering”
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