In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
SWY
Etymology
Noun
swy (plural swies)
(Australia, obsolete) A two-shilling coin.
(Australia, games) Two-up. [From 1913.]
(Australia, slang) A two-year prison sentence.
Source: Wiktionary
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INTUITIVELY
(adverb) in an intuitive manner; “inventors seem to have chosen intuitively a combination of explosive and aggressive sounds as warning signals to be used on automobiles”
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