Word: schweinichen
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...enormously fat, drunken, gluttonous Duke of Liegnitz, was a contemporary of England's Queen Elizabeth, but he never gave her a thought until his last legs were wobbly. Only thing that kept him from drinking his duchy dry and getting himself kicked out was his timidly pessimistic Counsellor, Schweinichen. But when the Duke, for a joke, tried to get his ugly wife to sit at the same table with his practically naked mistress, it was too much. The Duchess would not; the Duke slapped her; she went to the Holy Roman Emperor and told on him. So Duke Heinrich...
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