In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
SOWTH
Verb
sowth (third-person singular simple present sowths, present participle sowthing, simple past and past participle sowthed)
(Scotland, ambitransitive) to hum or whistle a low tone
• we'll sit an' sowth a tune (Robert Burns)
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HEEDLESS
(adjective) marked by or paying little heed or attention; “We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics”--Franklin D. Roosevelt; “heedless of danger”; “heedless of the child’s crying”
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