In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
SPELDER
Noun
spelder (plural spelders)
Alternative form of speld (“chip, splinter”)
Verb
spelder (third-person singular simple present spelders, present participle speldering, simple past and past participle speldered)
(chiefly, Scotland) To split apart.
(chiefly, Scotland) To spread out; to sprawl.
(Yorkshire, dialect) To spell.
Anagrams
• SLERPed, pedlers, slerped
Source: Wiktionary
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26 June 2025
DISPIRITEDLY
(adverb) in a dispirited manner without hope; “the first Mozartian opera to be subjected to this curious treatment ran dispiritedly for five performances”
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