In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
CHORE
job, task, chore
(noun) a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee; “estimates of the city’s loss on that job ranged as high as a million dollars”; “the job of repairing the engine took several hours”; “the endless task of classifying the samples”; “the farmer’s morning chores”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Noun
chore (plural chores)
A task, especially a difficult, unpleasant, or routine one.
Verb
chore (third-person singular simple present chores, present participle choring, simple past and past participle chored)
(US, dated) To do chores.
Etymology 2
Verb
chore (third-person singular simple present chores, present participle choring, simple past and past participle chored)
(British, informal) To steal.
Synonyms
• steal (standard English)
• thieve (standard English)
• twoc (Geordie)
Etymology 3
Noun
chore (plural chores)
(obsolete) A choir or chorus.
Anagrams
• Roche, ocher, ochre, roche
Source: Wiktionary
Chore, n. Etym: [The same word as char work done by the day.]
Definition: A small job; in the pl., the regular or daily light work of a household or farm, either within or without doors. [U. S.]
Chore, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Chored; p. pr. & vb. n. Choring.]
Definition: To do chores. [U. S.]
Chore, n.
Definition: A choir or chorus. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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