In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his familyās pot filled with coffee.
hassle, scuffle, tussle, dogfight, rough-and-tumble
(noun) disorderly fighting
fuss, trouble, bother, hassle
(noun) an angry disturbance; āhe didnāt want to make a fussā; āthey had labor troubleā; āa spot of botherā
harass, hassle, harry, chivy, chivvy, chevy, chevvy, beset, plague, molest, provoke
(verb) annoy continually or chronically; āHe is known to harry his staff when he is overworkedā; āThis man harasses his female co-workersā
Source: WordNet® 3.1
hassle (plural hassles)
Trouble, bother, unwanted annoyances or problems.
A fight or argument.
An action which is not worth the difficulty involved.
hassle (third-person singular simple present hassles, present participle hassling, simple past and past participle hassled)
To trouble, to bother, to annoy.
To pick a fight or start an argument.
• Hassel, Lashes, halses, lashes, selahs, shales, sheals
Source: Wiktionary
22 February 2025
(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., āthe father of the brideā instead of āthe brideās fatherā
In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his familyās pot filled with coffee.