In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
SAWDER
Etymology
By corruption.
Noun
sawder (countable and uncountable, plural sawders)
Archaic form of solder.
soft sawder; flattery; blarney
Verb
sawder (third-person singular simple present sawders, present participle sawdering, simple past and past participle sawdered)
Archaic form of solder.
Anagrams
• Dewars, Seward, Swader, dewars, saw red, waders
Source: Wiktionary
Saw"der, n.
Definition: A corrupt spelling and pronunciation of solder. Soft sawder, seductive praise; flattery; blarney. [Slang]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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