In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
STUPOR
grogginess, stupor, stupefaction, semiconsciousness
(noun) marginal consciousness; “his grogginess was caused as much by exhaustion as by the blows”; “someone stole his wallet while he was in a drunken stupor”
daze, shock, stupor
(noun) the feeling of distress and disbelief that you have when something bad happens accidentally; “his mother’s death left him in a daze”; “he was numb with shock”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
stupor (countable and uncountable, plural stupors)
A state of reduced consciousness or sensibility.
A state in which one has difficulty in thinking or using one’s senses.
Verb
stupor (third-person singular simple present stupors, present participle stuporing, simple past and past participle stupored)
(transitive) To place into a stupor; to stupefy.
Anagrams
• Portus, Proust, Sprout, Stroup, Troups, sprout
Source: Wiktionary
Stu"por, n. Etym: [L., from stupere to be struck senseless.]
1. Great diminution or suspension of sensibility; suppression of sense or feeling; lethargy.
2. Intellectual insensibility; moral stupidity; heedlessness or inattention to one's interests.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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COVERT
(adjective) secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed; “covert actions by the CIA”; “covert funding for the rebels”
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