In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
AIRHEAD
airhead
(noun) a bridgehead seized by airborne troops
airhead
(noun) a flighty scatterbrained simpleton; “she’s a total airhead”; “every airhead on a big salary rushed out to buy one”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Noun
airhead (plural airheads)
(military) An area of hostile territory that has been seized for use as an airbase to ensure the further safe landing of troops and materiel.
(by extension) A (usually temporary) landing area for aircraft for supplying a non-military operation.
(mining, archaic) Alternative form of air-head (“a horizontal channel providing ventilation in a mine.”)
Coordinate terms
• (military): beachhead, bridgehead, railhead
Etymology 2
Noun
airhead (plural airheads)
(originally, US, informal, derogatory) A foolish, silly, or unintelligent person.
Synonyms: bimbo, bubblehead, Thesaurus:idiot
Hyponyms
• dumb blonde
Source: Wiktionary
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UNAMBIGUOUS
(adjective) having or exhibiting a single clearly defined meaning; “As a horror, apartheid...is absolutely unambiguous”- Mario Vargas Llosa
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