In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
SPLATTERPUNK
Etymology
Noun
splatterpunk (countable and uncountable, plural splatterpunks)
(uncountable) A movement within horror fiction distinguished by its graphic, often gory, depictions of violence.
(countable) A fan of splatterpunk fiction.
Source: Wiktionary
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BACKFIRE
(verb) come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect; “Your comments may backfire and cause you a lot of trouble”; “the political movie backlashed on the Democrats”
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