In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
SHRUB
shrub, bush
(noun) a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
A play on his surname Bush, shrub being another word for bush.
Proper noun
Shrub
(derogatory, informal) Former U.S. president George W. Bush.
Anagrams
• Brush, bruhs, brush, burhs
Etymology 1
Noun
shrub (plural shrubs)
A woody plant smaller than a tree, and usually with several stems from the same base.
Synonyms
• bush (plant)
Verb
shrub (third-person singular simple present shrubs, present participle shrubbing, simple past and past participle shrubbed)
(obsolete) To lop; to prune.
(transitive, Kenyan English) To mispronounce a word by replacing its consonant sound(s) with another or others of a similar place of articulation.
Etymology 2
Noun
shrub (countable and uncountable, plural shrubs)
A liquor composed of vegetable acid, fruit juice (especially lemon), sugar, sometimes vinegar, and a small amount of spirit as a preservative. Modern shrub is usually non-alcoholic, but in earlier times it was often mixed with a substantial amount of spirit such as brandy or rum, thus making it a liqueur.
Anagrams
• Brush, bruhs, brush, burhs
Source: Wiktionary
Shrub, n. Etym: [Ar. shirb, shurb, a drink, beverage, fr. shariba to drink. Cf. Sirup, Sherbet.]
Definition: A liquor composed of vegetable acid, especially lemon juice, and sugar, with spirit to preserve it.
Shrub, n. Etym: [OE. schrob, AS. scrob, scrobb; akin to Norw. skrubba the dwarf cornel tree.] (Bot.)
Definition: A woody plant of less size than a tree, and usually with several stems from the same root.
Shrub, v. t.
Definition: To lop; to prune. [Obs.] Anderson (1573).
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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