In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
moider (third-person singular simple present moiders, present participle moidering, simple past and past participle moidered)
(intransitive) to toil
(ambitransitive) to muddle
(transitive) to pester
(transitive) to perplex or bewilder
moider (third-person singular simple present moiders, present participle moidering, simple past and past participle moidered)
(US, dialect, transitive) murder
• do-re-mi, dormie
Source: Wiktionary
Moi"der, v. i.
Definition: To toil. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
17 June 2025
(adjective) having deserted a cause or principle; “some provinces had proved recreant”; “renegade supporters of the usurper”
In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.