In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
DODGY
crafty, cunning, dodgy, foxy, guileful, knavish, slick, sly, tricksy, tricky, wily
(adjective) marked by skill in deception; “cunning men often pass for wise”; “deep political machinations”; “a foxy scheme”; “a slick evasive answer”; “sly as a fox”; “tricky Dick”; “a wily old attorney”
chancy, chanceful, dicey, dodgy
(adjective) of uncertain outcome; especially fraught with risk; “an extremely dicey future on a brave new world of liquid nitrogen, tar, and smog”- New Yorker
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
dodgy (comparative dodgier, superlative dodgiest)
(UK, Australian, NZ) evasive and shifty
(UK, Australian, NZ) unsound and unreliable
dishonest
risky
deviant
uncomfortable and weird
Synonyms
• (all): dodge (Australia)
• (unsound and unreliable): shaky, flaky
• (risky): chancy, risky
Anagrams
• Goddy
Source: Wiktionary
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