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.
WADDLE
waddle
(noun) walking with short steps and the weight tilting from one foot to the other; “ducks walk with a waddle”
toddle, coggle, totter, dodder, paddle, waddle
(verb) walk unsteadily; “small children toddle”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
waddle (plural waddles)
A squat, swaying gait.
Verb
waddle (third-person singular simple present waddles, present participle waddling, simple past and past participle waddled)
(intransitive) To walk with short steps, tilting the body from side to side.
Anagrams
• Dewald, dawdle, dwaled, walded
Proper noun
Waddle (plural Waddles)
A surname.
Statistics
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Waddle is the 7940th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 4167 individuals. Waddle is most common among White (91.05%) individuals.
Anagrams
• Dewald, dawdle, dwaled, walded
Source: Wiktionary
Wad"dle, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Waddled; p. pr. & vb. n. Waddling.] Etym: [Freq. of wade; cf. AS. wædlian to beg, from wadan to go. See Wade.]
Definition: To walk with short steps, swaying the body from one side to the other, like a duck or very fat person; to move clumsily and totteringly along; to toddle; to stumble; as, a child waddles when he begins to walk; a goose waddles. Shak. She drawls her words, and waddles in her pace. Young.
Wad"dle, v. t.
Definition: To trample or tread down, as high grass, by walking through it. [R.] Drayton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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