In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
DRAGGLE
bedraggle, draggle
(verb) make wet and dirty, as from rain
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
draggle (third-person singular simple present draggles, present participle draggling, simple past and past participle draggled)
to make, or to become, wet and muddy by dragging along the ground
Anagrams
• gargled, raggled
Source: Wiktionary
Drag"gle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Draggled; p. pr. & vb. n. Draggling.] Etym: [Freq. of drag. Drawl.]
Definition: To wet and soil by dragging on the ground, mud, or wet grass; to drabble; to trail. Gray. With draggled nets down-hanging to the tide. Trench.
Drag"gle, v. i.
Definition: To be dragged on the ground; to become wet or dirty by being dragged or trailed in the mud or wet grass. Hudibras.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
Recent Word Finds
Word of the Day
1 March 2025
AROMATIC
(adjective) (chemistry) of or relating to or containing one or more benzene rings; “an aromatic organic compound”
Coffee Trivia
