In the 18th century, the Swedish government made coffee and its paraphernalia (including cups and dishes) illegal for its supposed ties to rebellious sentiment.
DIGGER
digger
(noun) a laborer who digs
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
digger (plural diggers)
A large piece of machinery that digs holes or trenches; an excavator.
A tool for digging.
A spade (playing card).
One who digs.
(Australia, obsolete) A gold miner, one who digs for gold.
(Australia, dated) An informal nickname for a friend; used as a term of endearment.
(Australia, informal) An Australian soldier.
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Etymology
Noun
Digger (plural Diggers)
A soldier from Australia or New Zealand.
(historical) One of a group of Protestant English agrarian communists, begun by Gerrard Winstanley as "True Levellers" in 1649.
(obsolete, derogatory) One of a degraded tribe of California Native Americans who dug up roots for food.
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Source: Wiktionary
Dig"ger, n.
Definition: One who, or that which, digs. Digger wasp (Zoöl.), any one of the fossorial Hymenoptera.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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