In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
PREHENSILE
avaricious, covetous, grabby, grasping, greedy, prehensile
(adjective) immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth; “they are avaricious and will do anything for money”; “casting covetous eyes on his neighbor’s fields”; “a grasping old miser”; “grasping commercialism”; “greedy for money and power”; “grew richer and greedier”; “prehensile employers stingy with raises for their employees”
prehensile
(adjective) adapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an object; “a monkey’s prehensile tail”
prehensile
(adjective) having a keen intellect; “poets--those gifted strangely prehensile men”- A.T.Quiller-Couch
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
prehensile (not comparable)
(zoology) Able to take hold of and clasp objects; adapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an object.
Source: Wiktionary
Pre*hen"sile, a. Etym: [L. prehensus, p. p. of prehendere to lay hold of, seize; pre- (equiv. to prae before) + hendere (in comp.), akin to E. get: cf. F. préhensile. See Get, and cf. Prison, Prize, n.]
Definition: Adapted to seize or grasp; seizing; grasping; as, the prehensile tail of a monkey.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
Word of the Day
16 November 2024
LEAVE
(verb) go and leave behind, either intentionally or by neglect or forgetfulness; “She left a mess when she moved out”; “His good luck finally left him”; “her husband left her after 20 years of marriage”; “she wept thinking she had been left behind”
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