In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
SHNOOK
schnook, shnook
(noun) (Yiddish) a gullible simpleton more to be pitied than despised; “don’t be such an apologetic shnook”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
shnook (plural shnooks)
Alternative form of schnook
Source: Wiktionary
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ROOTS
(noun) the condition of belonging to a particular place or group by virtue of social or ethnic or cultural lineage; “his roots in Texas go back a long way”; “he went back to Sweden to search for his roots”; “his music has African roots”
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