In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
chirr
(verb) make a vibrant noise, of grasshoppers or cicadas
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Imitative.
chirr (third-person singular simple present chirrs, present participle chirring, simple past and past participle chirred)
(intransitive) To make the prolonged trilling sound of an insect (e.g. a grasshopper, a cicada).
• chirp, stridulate
chirr (plural chirrs)
The trilled sound made by an insect.
Source: Wiktionary
14 June 2025
(noun) a member of a learned society; “he was elected a fellow of the American Physiological Association”
In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.