In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
MALARKEY
wind, malarkey, malarky, idle words, jazz, nothingness
(noun) empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk; “that’s a lot of wind”; “don’t give me any of that jazz”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Proper noun
Malarkey (plural Malarkeys)
A surname.
Statistics
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Malarkey is the 31960th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 722 individuals. Malarkey is most common among White (96.68%) individuals.
Anagrams
• yarmalke, yarmelka
Etymology
Noun
malarkey (plural malarkeys)
(originally, US, informal) Nonsense; rubbish. [from 1920s]
Synonym: Thesaurus:nonsense
Anagrams
• yarmalke, yarmelka
Source: Wiktionary
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