In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
BRUNT
brunt
(noun) main force of a blow etc; “bore the brunt of the attack”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
brunt (plural brunts)
The full adverse effects; the chief consequences or negative results of a thing or event.
The major part of something; the bulk.
Verb
brunt (third-person singular simple present brunts, present participle brunting, simple past and past participle brunted)
(transitive) To bear the brunt of; to weather or withstand.
Anagrams
• burnt
Proper noun
Brunt (plural Brunts)
A surname.
Statistics
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Brunt is the 15651st most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1866 individuals. Brunt is most common among White (70.58%) and Black/African American (21.01%) individuals.
Anagrams
• burnt
Source: Wiktionary
Brunt, n. Etym: [OE. brunt, bront, fr. Icel. bruna to rush; cf. Icel. brenna to burn. Cf. Burn, v. t.]
1. The heat, or utmost violence, of an onset; the strength or greatest fury of any contention; as, the brunt of a battle.
2. The force of a blow; shock; collision. "And heavy brunt of cannon ball." Hudibras. It is instantly and irrecoverably scattered by our first brunt with some real affair of common life. I. Taylor.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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DOOMED
(adjective) marked by or promising bad fortune; “their business venture was doomed from the start”; “an ill-fated business venture”; “an ill-starred romance”; “the unlucky prisoner was again put in irons”- W.H.Prescott
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