In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
barracouta, snoek
(noun) a large marine food fish common on the coasts of Australia, New Zealand, and southern Africa
Source: WordNet® 3.1
barracouta (plural barracoutas)
(Australia) The snoek, Thyrsites atun, a foodfish.
The fish is only distantly related to the barracuda.
Source: Wiktionary
Bar`ra*cu"da, Bar`ra*cou"ta, n.
1. (Zoöl.)
Definition: A voracious pikelike, marine fish, of the genus Sphyræna, sometimes used as food.
Note: That of Europe and our Atlantic coast is Sphyræna spet (or S. vulgaris); a southern species is S. picuda; the Californian is S. argentea.
2. (Zoöl.)
Definition: A large edible fresh-water fish of Australia and New Zealand (Thyrsites atun).
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
4 April 2025
(verb) kill by cutting the head off with a guillotine; “The French guillotined many Vietnamese while they occupied the country”
In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.