In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
MISGENDER
Etymology
Verb
misgender (third-person singular simple present misgenders, present participle misgendering, simple past and past participle misgendered)
(transitive) To refer to (a person) using terms that express the wrong gender, either unknowingly or intentionally; for example by calling a woman "son" or a boy "she".
Coordinate terms: deadname, mispronoun
(transitive) To use the wrong grammatical gender with a word.
Anagrams
• demersing, genderism
Source: Wiktionary
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CATCH
(verb) grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of; “did you catch that allusion?”; “We caught something of his theory in the lecture”; “don’t catch your meaning”; “did you get it?”; “She didn’t get the joke”; “I just don’t get him”
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