In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
PORRIDGE
porridge
(noun) soft food made by boiling oatmeal or other meal or legumes in water or milk until thick
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
porridge (usually uncountable, plural porridges)
A dish made of grain or legumes, milk and/or water, heated and stirred until thick and typically eaten for breakfast.
(chiefly, Britain) Oatmeal porridge.
(British, slang) A prison sentence.
(rare) A type of thick soup or stew, especially thickened with barley.
Anagrams
• PĂ©rigord
Source: Wiktionary
Por"ridge, n. Etym: [Probably corrupted fr. pottage; perh. influenced by OE. porree a kind of pottage, OF. porrée, fr. L. porrum, porrus, leek. See Pottage, and cf. Porringer.]
Definition: A food made by boiling some leguminous or farinaceous substance, or the meal of it, in water or in milk, making of broth or thin pudding; as, barley porridge, milk porridge, bean porridge, etc.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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SHTIK
(noun) (Yiddish) a little; a piece; “give him a shtik cake”; “he’s a shtik crazy”; “he played a shtik Beethoven”
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