In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
bicker, bickering, spat, tiff, squabble, pettifoggery, fuss
(noun) a quarrel about petty points
Source: WordNet® 3.1
pettifoggery (plural pettifoggeries)
The actions of a pettifogger; a trivial quarrel.
• fuss
• quibble
• spat
• squabble
• tiff
Source: Wiktionary
Pet"ti*fog`ger*y, n.; pl. -ies (.
Definition: The practice or arts of a pettifogger; disreputable tricks; quibbles. Quirks of law, and pettifoggeries. Barrow.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
11 June 2025
(adjective) having relatively few calories; “diet cola”; “light (or lite) beer”; “lite (or light) mayonnaise”; “a low-cal diet”
In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.