In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
plank, flump, plonk, plop, plunk, plump down, plunk down, plump
(verb) set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise; “He planked the money on the table”; “He planked himself into the sofa”
flump, flump down
(verb) fall heavily
Source: WordNet® 3.1
flump (third-person singular simple present flumps, present participle flumping, simple past and past participle flumped)
(intransitive) To move or fall heavily, or with a dull sound.
(transitive) To drop something heavily or with a dull sound.
flump (plural flumps)
The dull sound so produced.
A type of large marshmallow.
(by extension) A fat out-of-shape person.
• plunk, thud
• Pflum
Source: Wiktionary
25 March 2025
(noun) fixation (as by a plaster cast) of a body part in order to promote proper healing; “immobilization of the injured knee was necessary”
In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.