In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
BAWL
bawl
(verb) cry loudly; “Don’t bawl in public!”
yawp, bawl
(verb) make a raucous noise
bawl, bellow
(verb) shout loudly and without restraint
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
bawl (third-person singular simple present bawls, present participle bawling, simple past and past participle bawled)
(transitive) To shout or utter in a loud and intense manner.
(intransitive) To wail; to give out a blaring cry.
Noun
bawl (plural bawls)
A loud, intense shouting or wailing.
Anagrams
• LBWA
Source: Wiktionary
Bawl, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Bawled (p. pr. & vb. n. Bawling.] Etym: [Icel. baula to low, bellow, as a cow; akin to Sw. böla; cf. AS bellan, G. bellen to bark, E. bellow, bull.]
1. To cry out with a loud, full sound; to cry with vehemence, as in calling or exultation; to shout; to vociferate.
2. To cry loudly, as a child from pain or vexation.
Bawl, v. t.
Definition: To proclaim with a loud voice, or by outcry, as a hawker or town-crier does. Swift.
Bawl, n.
Definition: A loud, prolonged cry; an outcry.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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