In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
UNDERLOOKER
Etymology
Noun
underlooker (plural underlookers)
(mining) A daily inspector of a mine.
Synonyms
• underviewer
Source: Wiktionary
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SHTIK
(noun) (Yiddish) a little; a piece; “give him a shtik cake”; “he’s a shtik crazy”; “he played a shtik Beethoven”
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