In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
plodder, slowpoke, stick-in-the-mud, slowcoach
(noun) someone who moves slowly; “in England they call a slowpoke a slowcoach”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
slowcoach (plural slowcoaches)
(inforomal, UK) a person, especially a child, who moves slowly.
• plodder
• sluggard
• (US & Canadian equivalent) slowpoke
Source: Wiktionary
18 November 2024
(adjective) not functioning properly; “something is amiss”; “has gone completely haywire”; “something is wrong with the engine”
In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.