In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
MICROCEPHALY
microcephaly, microcephalus, nanocephaly
(noun) an abnormally small head and underdeveloped brain
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
microcephaly (countable and uncountable, plural microcephalies)
A neurological disorder in which the person affected has an abnormally small head due to a failure of brain growth.
Synonyms
• microcephalia
• microcephalism
Anagrams
• pyrochemical
Source: Wiktionary
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PARSIMONIOUS
(adjective) excessively unwilling to spend; “parsimonious thrift relieved by few generous impulses”; “lived in a most penurious manner--denying himself every indulgence”
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