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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According to Guinness World Records, the largest iced coffee is 14,228.1 liters and was created by Caffé Bene (South Korea), in Yangju, South Korea, on 17 July 2014. They poured iced black Americano on the giant cup that measured 3.3 meters tall and 2.62 meters wide.

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