In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
WAVICLE
Etymology
Noun
wavicle (plural wavicles)
(quantum mechanics) A wave-particle; an entity which simultaneously has the properties of a wave and a particle.
Source: Wiktionary
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1 June 2025
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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