In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
MOODIES
Proper noun
Moodies
plural of Moodie
Source: Wiktionary
MOODY
Mood"y, a. [Compar. Moodier; superl. Moodiest.] Etym: [AS. modig courageous.]
1. Subject to varying moods, especially to states of mind which are unamiable or depressed.
2. Hence: Out of humor; peevish; angry; fretful; also, abstracted and pensive; sad; gloomy; melancholy. "Every peevish, moody malcontent." Rowe. Arouse thee from thy moody dream! Sir W. Scott.
Syn.
– Gloomy; pensive; sad; fretful; capricious.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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