In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
SOUPED
Adjective
souped (comparative more souped, superlative most souped)
(Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Connecticut, slang) Excited.
In trouble or in difficulty. (Compare in the soup.)
Verb
souped
simple past tense and past participle of soup
Anagrams
• does up, doupes, pseudo, pseudo-
Source: Wiktionary
SOUP
Soup, n. Etym: [F. soupe, OF. sope, supe, soupe, perhaps originally, a piece of bread; probably of Teutonic origin; cf. D. sop sop, G. suppe soup. See Sop something dipped in a liquid, and cf. Supper.]
Definition: A liquid food of many kinds, usually made by boiling meat and vegetables, or either of them, in water, -- commonly seasoned or flavored; strong broth. Soup kitchen, an establishment for preparing and supplying soup to the poor.
– Soup ticket, a ticket conferring the privilege of receiving soup at a soup kitchen.
Soup, v. t.
Definition: To sup or swallow. [Obs.] Wyclif.
Soup, v. t.
Definition: To breathe out. [Obs.] amden.
Soup, v. t.
Definition: To sweep. See Sweep, and Swoop. [Obs.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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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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