In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
PONGO
Pongo, genus Pongo
(noun) type genus of the family Pongidae: orangutans
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
pongo (plural pongos or pongoes)
(British, military slang) A soldier.
(archaic) Any large ape.
Source: Wiktionary
Pon"go, n. (Zoöl.)
Definition: Any large ape; especially, the chimpanzee and the orang-outang.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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DIRECTIONALITY
(noun) the property of being directional or maintaining a direction; “the directionality of written English is from left to right”
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