In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
BEKNAVE
Etymology
Verb
beknave (third-person singular simple present beknaves, present participle beknaving, simple past and past participle beknaved)
(transitive, rare) To treat as a knave.
(transitive, rare) To call (someone) a knave.
Anagrams
• Vanbeek
Source: Wiktionary
Be*knave", v. t.
Definition: To call knave. [Obs.] Pope.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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BACKFIRE
(verb) come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect; “Your comments may backfire and cause you a lot of trouble”; “the political movie backlashed on the Democrats”
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