In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
PIGGY
hoggish, piggish, piggy, porcine, swinish
(adjective) resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy; “piggish table manners”; “the piggy fat-cheeked little boy and his porcine pot-bellied father”; “swinish slavering over food”
piglet, piggy, shoat, shote
(noun) a young pig
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
piggy (plural piggies)
(hypocoristic) A pig (the animal).
(hypocoristic) A guinea pig.
(hypocoristic, slang) A toe.
(mildly, derogatory) A pig, a greedy person.
(derogatory, slang, UK) A member of the police.
Adjective
piggy (comparative piggier, superlative piggiest)
greedy
slovenly, dirty
Source: Wiktionary
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(adjective) remarkable or out of the ordinary in degree or magnitude or effect; “a great crisis”; “had a great stake in the outcome”
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