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.
WAMPISH
Etymology
Verb
wampish (third-person singular simple present wampishes, present participle wampishing, simple past and past participle wampished)
(ambitransitive, Scotland, archaic) To brandish or flourish, or be brandished or flourished.
(intransitive, Scotland, archaic) To wriggle, twist or swerve about, like a fish swimming
Source: Wiktionary
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RAREFACTION
(noun) a decrease in the density of something; “a sound wave causes periodic rarefactions in its medium”
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