Q: What Does Scaldabanco Mean?
A Stirring Preacher that Delivers a Fiery Sermon.
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Q: What is the History of the Word Scaldabanco?
A hot declaimer. The Presbyterians, those Scalda-bancos or hot declamers, had wrought a great distast in the Commons at the king. Bp. Hacket, Abp. Williams, ii. 182. (Davies.) ( Century Dictionary).
Etymology: From Italian scaldabanco, “one that keepes a seate warme, but ironically spoken of idle lecture[r]s that possesse a pewe in the schooles or pulpet in churches and baffle out they know not what; also a hot-headed puritane” (Florio, 1611); from scaldare, heat, warm, + banco, bench
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A Stirring Preacher that Delivers a Fiery Sermon.
(Popularized by the Board Game Balderdash, 1984)
Q: What is the History of the Word Scaldabanco?
A hot declaimer. The Presbyterians, those Scalda-bancos or hot declamers, had wrought a great distast in the Commons at the king. Bp. Hacket, Abp. Williams, ii. 182. (Davies.) ( Century Dictionary).
Etymology: From Italian scaldabanco, “one that keepes a seate warme, but ironically spoken of idle lecture[r]s that possesse a pewe in the schooles or pulpet in churches and baffle out they know not what; also a hot-headed puritane” (Florio, 1611); from scaldare, heat, warm, + banco, bench
It's first appearance on the Internet appeared in 1994 at Western Nebraska Community College before the World Wide Web browser was first introduced. It Later held a Top 10 Spot of the most unusual names "researched on the Internet" in the late '90's. The Web Site has undergone Numerous Changes over the past Decade.
Q: Why does it take awhile to Receive Answers to my questions?
We receive numerous requests weekly and try to respond to them in order as they appear. Please be patient as all questions will be answered, since we take all questions seriously. Please note that at times it requires
additional research, free of charge, so that you have the best answer or a beginning point in your own investigative journey...
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