In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
MOITHER
Verb
moither (third-person singular simple present moithers, present participle moithering, simple past and past participle moithered)
(Yorkshire, dialect) to bother or harass
(UK, dialect) To toil; to labour.
To perplex; to confuse.
Anagrams
• mohrite, mothier, thiomer
Source: Wiktionary
Moi"ther, v. t. Etym: [Etymol. uncertain.]
Definition: To perplex; to confuse. [Prov. Eng.] Lamb.
Moi"ther, v. i.
Definition: To toil; to labor. [Prov. Eng.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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