pig-stickingn.
/ˈpɪɡˌstɪkɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈpɪɡˌstɪkɪŋ/ 1. The action or practice of butchering a pig, esp. by thrusting a knife into its neck; an instance of this. Frequently attributive.
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the world > life > death > killing > killing of animals > [noun] > by specific method
cabaging1575
spearing1784
pithing1806
pig-sticking1821
worry1847
shechita1875
halal1888
estocada1910
lethalling1925
roadkill1943
autocide1967
1821 Times 23 June 3/6 The prisoner rushed on him with great violence, with a butcher's pig-sticking knife in his hand.
1884 M. Arnold in Harper's Mag. Oct. 797/2 I would not go to see the pig-sticking at the stock-yards.
1922 Edwardsville (Illinois) Intelligencer November was pig-sticking month.
1997 New Straits Times (Malaysia) (Nexis) 5 Mar. 9 My memory of Hardy's Jude the Obscure is mainly of the pig-sticking scene.
2. The sport or practice of hunting wild boar on horseback using a spear; an instance of this. Frequently attributive.The sport is chiefly associated with India in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, where it developed as a pastime for British colonial officers.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting specific animals > [noun] > pigs
pig hunting1631
boar-hunting1770
pig-hunt1793
pig-sticking1833
boar-hunt1843
pig-stick1906
1833 Sporting Mag. May 53/1 Hog-hunting, vulgo ‘pig-sticking’, a right manly pastime, I am sorry to say is also fading away like the dews of the morning.
1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair lx. 543 Describing the sport of pig-sticking..with great humour and eloquence.
1875 Times 21 Dec. 10/2 There was a relâche of two hours for change of clothes, lunch, and arrangements for the pig-sticking expedition to Dubka.
1910 Blackwood's Mag. Apr. 559/1 The Ganges Cup was first run for in 1869 after the pig-sticking season.
1993 Daily Tel. 3 Feb. 19/6 A first class polo player and an excellent shot; pig-sticking and tiger shooting were among his other enthusiasms.
3. figurative. A powerful, sustained, or humiliating attack, esp. one directed at a weaker party by a stronger one; persecution, victimization.
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > [noun] > victimization
victimizing1834
victimization1840
pig-sticking1948
1948 A. Lee in F. Gross European Ideol. iii. 104 All their propaganda activities were penalized, and what their author called ‘the pigsticking’ began.
1966 Mansfield (Ohio) News-Jrnl. 20 May 27/2 Clay quickly reopened the cuts above and below Cooper's eyes in the fifth round and it became a pig-sticking.
2004 Vancouver Province (Nexis) 17 June a21 The debates confirmed for me that the Liberals are in for a pig-sticking.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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