In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
GROK
grok, get the picture, comprehend, savvy, dig, grasp, compass, apprehend
(verb) get the meaning of something; “Do you comprehend the meaning of this letter?”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
grok (third-person singular simple present groks, present participle grokking, simple past and past participle grokked)
(transitive, slang) To understand (something) intuitively, to know (something) without having to think intellectually.
(transitive, slang) To fully and completely understand something in all of its details and intricacies.
Usage notes
Grok is used mainly by the geek subculture, though it was heavily used by the counterculture of the 1960s, as evidenced by its repeated appearance in Tom Wolfe's “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.”
Anagrams
• gork
Source: Wiktionary
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