In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
SURGY
Etymology
Adjective
surgy (comparative more surgy, superlative most surgy)
Rising in surges or billows; full of surges; resembling surges in motion or appearance; swelling.
Anagrams
• gyrus
Source: Wiktionary
Sur"gy, a.
Definition: Rising in surges or billows; full of surges; resembling surges in motion or appearance; swelling. "Over the surgy main." Pope.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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GREAT
(adjective) remarkable or out of the ordinary in degree or magnitude or effect; “a great crisis”; “had a great stake in the outcome”
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