In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
TETTER
Etymology 1
Noun
tetter (countable and uncountable, plural tetters)
(now rare) Any of various pustular skin conditions.
Verb
tetter (third-person singular simple present tetters, present participle tettering, simple past and past participle tettered)
To affect with tetter.
Etymology 2
Corruption of "potato".
Noun
tetter (plural tetters)
(Regional Dixieland vernacular, obsolete) Potato, or sweet potato root.
Source: Wiktionary
Tet"ter, n. Etym: [OE. teter, AS. teter, tetr; akin to G. zitter, zittermal, OHG. zittaroch, Skr. dadru, dadruka, a sort of skin disease. *63, 240.] (Med.)
Definition: A vesicular disease of the skin; herpes. See Herpes. Honeycomb tetter (Med.), favus.
– Moist tetter (Med.), eczema.
– Scaly tetter (Med.), psoriasis. Tetter berry (Bot.), the white bryony.
Tet"ter, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tettered; p. pr. & vb. n. Tettering.]
Definition: To affect with tetter. Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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