In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
FULSOMEST
Adjective
fulsomest
superlative form of fulsome: most fulsome
Source: Wiktionary
FULSOME
Ful"some, a. Etym: [Full, a. + -some.]
1. Full; abundant; plenteous; not shriveled. [Obs.] His lean, pale, hoar, and withered corpse grew fulsome, fair, and fresh. Golding.
2. Offending or disgusting by overfullness, excess, or grossness; cloying; gross; nauseous; esp., offensive from excess of praise; as, fulsome flattery. And lest the fulsome artifice should fail Themselves will hide its coarseness with a veil. Cowper.
3. Lustful; wanton; obscene; also, tending to obscenity. [Obs.] "Fulsome ewes." Shak.
– Ful"some*ly, adv.
– Ful"some*ness, n. Dryden.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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UNSEASONED
(adjective) not tried or tested by experience; “unseasoned artillery volunteers”; “still untested in battle”; “an illustrator untried in mural painting”; “a young hand at plowing”
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