In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
SANDBOY
sandboy
(noun) a young peddler of sand; used now only to express great happiness in ‘happy as a sandboy’
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
sandboy (plural sandboys)
A boy who sells sand.
(in similes) A proverbially happy or jolly person.
Anagrams
• bonyads
Source: Wiktionary
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WHOLE
(noun) an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity; “how big is that part compared to the whole?”; “the team is a unit”
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