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.
TRUDGEN
Etymology
Named for John Trudgen (1852-1902), an English swimmer who popularised the stroke.
Noun
trudgen (plural trudgens)
A swimming stroke in which the left and right hands are alternately raised out of the water, brought forward and drawn back through the water. A scissor kick is performed on every second stroke.
Anagrams
• grunted
Source: Wiktionary
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SINGSONG
(verb) move as if accompanied by a singsong; “The porters singsonged the travellers’ luggage up the mountain”
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