In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
BREASTFEED
breastfeed, suckle, suck, nurse, wet-nurse, lactate, give suck
(verb) give suck to; “The wetnurse suckled the infant”; “You cannot nurse your baby in public in some places”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
breastfeed (third-person singular simple present breastfeeds, present participle breastfeeding, simple past and past participle breastfed)
(transitive, intransitive) To feed (a baby) milk via the breasts; to suckle; to nurse.
(chiefly, of a, baby, intransitive) To nurse, to suck milk from a breast.
Synonyms
• boobfeed (informal)
Source: Wiktionary
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