In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
THRANG
Adjective
thrang (comparative more thrang, superlative most thrang)
(dialectal, Northern England, Scotlang) busy, preoccupied
(dialectal, rare, Northern England) crowded, busy
Synonym: throng
Verb
thrang
simple past tense of thring
Source: Wiktionary
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(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride’s father’
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