In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
GURGLES
Noun
gurgles
plural of gurgle
Anagrams
• Ruggles, luggers, slugger
Source: Wiktionary
GURGLE
Gur"gle, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Gurgled;p. pr. & vb. n. Gurgling.] Etym: [Cf. It. gorgogliare to gargle, bubble up, fr. L. gurgulio gullet. Cf. Gargle, Gorge.]
Definition: To run or flow in a broken, irregular, noisy current, as water from a bottle, or a small stream among pebbles or stones. Pure gurgling rills the lonely desert trace, And waste their music on the savage race. Young.
Gur"gle, n.
Definition: The act of gurgling; a broken, bubbling noise. "Tinkling gurgles." W. Thompson.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride’s father’
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