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.
WERSH
Etymology
Adjective
wersh (comparative wersher, superlative wershest)
(UK dialectal, Scotland) Insipid; tasteless; delicate; having a pale and sickly look.
Anagrams
• Rhews, shrew
Source: Wiktionary
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SCHNORR
(verb) obtain or seek to obtain by cadging or wheedling; “he is always shnorring cigarettes from his friends”
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