In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
BOBBLE
bobble
(noun) the momentary juggling of a batted or thrown baseball; “the second baseman made a bobble but still had time to throw the runner out”
botch, bodge, bumble, fumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub, screw up, ball up, spoil, muck up, bungle, fluff, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, fuck up
(verb) make a mess of, destroy or ruin; “I botched the dinner and we had to eat out”; “the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
bobble (plural bobbles)
A furry ball attached on top of a hat.
(British) Elasticated band used for securing hair (for instance in a ponytail), a hair tie
(informal) A pill (a ball formed on the surface of the fabric, as on laundered clothes).
(knitting) A localized set of stitches forming a raised bump.
A wobbling motion.
Verb
bobble (third-person singular simple present bobbles, present participle bobbling, simple past and past participle bobbled)
(intransitive) To bob up and down.
(US) To make a mistake in.
(intransitive) To roll slowly.
Source: Wiktionary
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LEFT
(adjective) being or located on or directed toward the side of the body to the west when facing north; “my left hand”; “left center field”; “the left bank of a river is bank on your left side when you are facing downstream”
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