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单词 piggy
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piggyn.1

Brit. /ˈpɪɡi/, U.S. /ˈpɪɡi/
Forms: 1600s piggi, 1600s 1800s– piggie, 1600s– piggy.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: pig n.1, -y suffix6.
Etymology: < pig n.1 + -y suffix6. Conc. Ulster Dict. s.v. Pig n.1 records also a reduplicated form piggie wiggie in sense 2 (compare piggy-wiggy n.).
colloquial.
1. A little pig; a pet name for a pig or (occasionally) another animal referred to as a pig. Also (usually humorous): a fat or greedy person.In quot. 1890 applied to a hedgehog.
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the world > people > person > child > [noun]
wenchelc890
childeOE
littleOE
littlingOE
hired-childc1275
smalla1300
brolla1325
innocentc1325
chickc1330
congeonc1330
impc1380
faunt1382
young onec1384
scionc1390
weea1400
birdc1405
chickenc1440
enfaunta1475
small boyc1475
whelp1483
burden1490
little one1509
brat?a1513
younkerkin1528
kitling1541
urchin1556
loneling1579
breed1586
budling1587
pledge?1587
ragazzo1591
simplicity1592
bantling1593
tadpole1594
two-year-old1594
bratcheta1600
lambkin1600
younker1601
dandling1611
buda1616
eyas-musketa1616
dovelinga1618
whelplinga1618
puppet1623
butter printa1625
chit1625
piggy1625
ninnyc1626
youngster1633
fairya1635
lap-child1655
chitterling1675
squeaker1676
cherub1680
kid1690
wean1692
kinchin1699
getlingc1700
totum17..
charity-child1723
small girl1734
poult1739
elfin1748
piggy-wiggy1766
piccaninny1774
suck-thumb18..
teeny1802
olive1803
sprout1813
stumpie1820
sexennarian1821
totty1822
toddle1825
toddles1828
poppet1830
brancher1833
toad1836
toddler1837
ankle-biter1840
yarkera1842
twopenny1844
weeny1844
tottykins1849
toddlekins1852
brattock1858
nipper1859
sprat1860
ninepins1862
angelet1868
tenas man1870
tad1877
tacker1885
chavvy1886
joey1887
toddleskin1890
thumb-sucker1891
littlie1893
peewee1894
tyke1894
che-ild1896
kiddo1896
mother's bairn1896
childling1903
kipper1905
pick1905
small1907
God forbid1909
preadolescent1909
subadolescent1914
toto1914
snookums1919
tweenie1919
problem child1920
squirt1924
trottie1924
tiddler1927
subteen1929
perisher1935
poopsie1937
pre-schooler1937
pre-teen1938
pre-teener1940
juvie1941
sprog1944
pikkie1945
subteenager1947
pre-teenager1948
pint-size1954
saucepan lid1960
rug rat1964
smallie1984
bosom-child-
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > pig > [noun] > young
farrowa700
grice?c1225
piga1250
hogling1377
porketa1555
porkling1561
porkin1570
swine shoat1581
hog-babe1610
hoglet1611
pigling1612
piggy1625
gruntling1686
porkrel1694
piggy-wiggy1766
griceling1782
boneen1827
slip1832
piglet1839
slip-pig1844
squeaker1861
piggy-wig1870
snork1891
snorker1891
1625 F. Bacon Apophthegmes §278.304 Is the piggy serued?
1672 H. Herbert Narr. in Camden Misc. (1990) XXX. 342 The French have cast lotts upon his Temporall Vesture and made him a spirituall Ashe of Verdun or as a little piggi in England.
1736 Piggy in Beeriad 71 The Captains Pigs that hitherto lay hush, Rouz'd, and bespatter'd Piggy all with Slush.
1799 in Spirit of Public Jrnls. (1800) 3 25 Go to the forest, piggy, and deplore The miserable lot of savage swine.
1841 Times 5 Oct. 7/5 The owner of a pig..shutting the door to prevent piggy's egress, whipped the poor animal until it squeaked for mercy.
1890 Spectator 10 May 655/1 If the worm objected to come out of the hole, ‘piggy’ [sc. a hedgehog], with his head on one side, gently scratched away the grass with his right fore-paw and extracted him.
1927 W. S. Churchill Let. 30 Oct. in W. S. Churchill & C. S. Churchill Speaking for Themselves (1999) xiii. 316 The remaining new sow has had seven piggies.
1993 J. Saunders Absolutely Fabulous ii. 42 Shouldn't eat so much, little piggy.
2. English regional (northern) and Irish English (northern) The game of tipcat (tipcat n. 2); the ‘cat’ or piece of wood used in this game.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > tip-cat > [noun]
cat's-pellet1609
trippet1624
cat1626
kit-cat1665
cat's-play1668
tipcat1801
cat and dog1808
piggy1862
piggy-and-stick1932
kennetjie1947
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > tip-cat > [noun] > equipment
trippetc1440
cat1598
tipcat1676
piggy1862
piggy-stick1968
1862 C. C. Robinson Dial. Leeds & Neighbourhood 384 Piggy, a game played by boys with sticks, and a piece of rounded wood, pointed at each end, called the ‘piggy’, which, when struck at either end, rebounds, similar to the game of ‘cat’ elsewhere.
1884 Manch. Guardian 22 Sept. 8/4Piggy’ (which some members..recognise under the name of ‘tip-cat’) [was] among the features he described as objectionable in our street life.
1909 Westm. Gaz. 10 May 12/1 About 300 spectators attended the Barnsley Queen's Grounds..on the occasion of a long knock piggy match for £50 and the championship of Yorkshire.
1999 Sentinel (Stoke-on-Trent) (Nexis) 18 Nov. 59 Another outdoor pastime was the game of Tip Cat, which had many variants and names, depending on the region... In Yorkshire and Lancashire, it was Piggy or Nipsey.
3. colloquial. A toe. Chiefly in plural.This sense of the word derives from the association with the use of piggy in the nursery rhyme ‘This little piggy went to market’, which usually is counted out on a child's toes. The traditional written English version of the rhyme uses pig; piggy occurs in familiar Scottish and North American versions of the rhyme (see P. M. Fraser This Little Piggy, & Other Counting Rhymes (1942) 4–5), and is a likely colloquial variant elsewhere.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > digit > toe > [noun]
toec725
piggy1978
1908 R. W. Gilder Poems 127 Quick as you can think Twenty small toes In four pretty rows, Like little piggies pink, All kick in the air.]
1978 Washington Post 29 May c5/2 We think Miller is in the same condition as last year, when he was the alleged front runner, but he never got the piggies over the doorsill.
1989 Sunday Express Mag. 12 Nov. 16/1 When she opens the door barefoot..prepared to face the press with her piggies on show, presumably it's okay for the rest of us, too.
1998 Rock & Ice Sept. 51 (advt.) Snug in the heel. Precise over the instep. A little wider across your piggies.

Compounds

piggy-and-stick n. rare = sense 2; cf. piggy-stick n. 2.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > tip-cat > [noun]
cat's-pellet1609
trippet1624
cat1626
kit-cat1665
cat's-play1668
tipcat1801
cat and dog1808
piggy1862
piggy-and-stick1932
kennetjie1947
1932 L. Golding Magnolia St. i. ix. 159 The little Jewboys..started playing ball or piggy-and-stick.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

piggyn.2

Brit. /ˈpɪɡi/, U.S. /ˈpɪɡi/, Scottish English /ˈpɪɡɪ/
Forms: 1700s piggie (Scottish), 1700s– piggy, 1800s– peggy (English regional (Northumberland)).
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: pig n.2, -y suffix6.
Etymology: < pig n.2 + -y suffix6.
Scottish and English regional (Northumberland). rare.
A small earthenware pot or pig (cf. pig n.2); spec. (English regional (Northumberland)) an earthenware hot-water bottle.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > [noun] > earthenware vessel > small
crusec1420
pankin1420
gallipot1465
crocketa1657
piggy1711
canette1881
1711 in Ulster Jrnl. Archæol. (1898) 4 117 Pour it on a clean piggie or plate, then scum it, and boill it for your use.
1727 Song: Country Lass in A. Ramsay New Misc. Sc. Song 180 My Paisly Piggy, cork'd with Sage, Contains my Drink but thin—O.
1894 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words 535 A traveller reported that in Northumberland the people slept with the pigs for warmth. He had been asked if he would have a piggy in his bed.
1958 Banffshire Jrnl. 1 Apr. Hooever, as the sayin' is — ‘the piggy gangs tae the wall till ae day’, an' that day cam' tae Wullie at the lang last.
1987 F. Graham New Geordie Dict. 36 Pig piggy, an earthenware hot water bottle.]
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

piggyadj.

Brit. /ˈpɪɡi/, U.S. /ˈpɪɡi/
Forms: 1800s peggy (English regional (Cornwall)), 1800s– piggy.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: pig n.1, -y suffix1.
Etymology: < pig n.1 + -y suffix1.
Piglike; resembling or suggestive of a pig; (figurative) unpleasant; stubborn, greedy, unattractive, dirty.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > pig > [adjective]
piglikea1625
piggish1742
piggy1839
pigly1859
the mind > emotion > suffering > displeasure > [adjective] > unpleasant
loatha700
unsweetc890
grimlyc893
unquemeOE
un-i-quemeOE
evila1131
sourc1175
illc1220
unhightlyc1275
unwelcomec1325
unblithec1330
unnetc1330
unrekena1350
unagreeablec1374
uncouthc1380
unsavouryc1380
displeasantc1386
unlikinga1398
ungaina1400
crabbedc1400
unlovelyc1400
displeasing1401
eschewc1420
unsoot1420
mislikinga1425
unlikelya1425
unlustya1425
fastidiousc1425
unpleasantc1430
displicable1471
unthankfulc1475
displeasant1481
uneasy1483
unpleasinga1500
unfaring1513
badc1530
malpleasant?1533
noisome1542
thanklessa1547
ungrate1548
untoothsome1548
ungreeable1550
contrary1561
disagreeable1570
offensible1575
offensive1576
naughty1578
delightlessa1586
undelightful1585
unwisheda1586
unpleasurable1587
undelightsomec1595
dislikeful1596
disliking1596
ungrateful1596
unsweet?a1600
distastive1600
impleasing1602
distasting1603
distasteful1607
unsightly1608
undelectable1610
disgustful1611
unrelishing1611
waspisha1616
undeliciousa1618
unwished-for1617
disrelishing1631
unenjoyed1643
unjoyous1645
mirya1652
unwelcomed1651
unpleasivea1656
sweet1656
injucund1657
insuave1657
unpalatable1658
unhandsome1660
undesirable1667
disrelishablea1670
uncouthsome1684
shocking1703
nasty1705
embittering1746
indelectable1751
undelightinga1774
nice and ——1796
unenjoyablea1797
ungenial1796
uncomplacent1805
ungracious1807
bitter1810
rotten1813
uncongenial1813
quarrelsome1825
grimy1833
nice1836
unrelished1863
bloody1867
unbewitching1876
ferocious1877
displeasurable1879
rebarbative1892
charming1893
crook1898
naar1900
peppery1901
negative1902
poisonous1906
off-putting1935
unsympathetic1937
piggy1942
funky1946
umpty1948
pooey1967
minging1970
Scrooge-like1976
sucky1984
stank1991
stanky1991
1839 T. Hood Hood's Own 380 Miss Ikey, Whose whole pronunciation was so piggy.
1874 F. C. Burnand My Time xxii. 198 He was fresh-coloured, with little piggy eyes.
1897 C. Lee Widow Woman 165 Thou peggy varmen!
1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang 279 Avaricious; Greedy, Grabby, a hog for,..on the make, piggy.
1957 ‘N. Shute’ On Beach viii. 264 ‘Getting a bit piggy, isn't it?’.. ‘Everything shut up, and dirty, and stinking.’
1995 Maxim July 117/1 This is a rich dish so don't get all piggy and make yourself queasy.

Compounds

piggy-eyed adj. having small eyes like those of a pig; having deep-set, squinting, or half-shut eyes.
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1963 D. Stanford Muriel Spark 45 At first, her pupils are impressed..—none more than piggy-eyed little Sandy.
1974 Greece & Rome 21 157 The Caecilii evidently abandoned their piggy-eyed ancestor Caeculus in favour of Caecas, a comrade of Aeneas.
1997 Cosmopolitan (U.K. ed.) May 75/2 I had two vodkas last night... Two is my absolute limit, so now I'm piggy-eyed and puffy.
2003 Times (Nexis) 8 Nov. (Features section) 10 Being very shortsighted indeed, my glasses rendered me piggy-eyed.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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