In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
TAMPAN
Etymology 1
Noun
tampan (plural tampans or tampan)
A type of cloth from Indonesia.
Etymology 2
Etymology obscure, probably from Tswana tampane.
Noun
tampan (plural tampans)
Any of many species in the family Argasidae, the soft ticks.
Source: Wiktionary
Tam"pan, n. (Zoöl.)
Definition: A venomous South African tick. Livingstone.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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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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