Pig

PIG, sb.1 and v. Var. dial. uses in Sc. Irel. and Eng. Also in form peg Brks.1 Dev.1 [pig, w.Cy. peg.] 1. sb. In comb. (1) Pig's-boat, the receptacle in which pig's food is kept; (2) Pig-chafted, having the upper jaw projecting beyond the lower; (3) Pig-chaps, the lower jaws of a pig; (4) Pig-cheer, sausages, pork-pies and other dishes made from the viscera and inferior portions of a pig; (5) Pig-club, a society whose members are mutually bound to help each other to purchase a pig in place of one which has died a natural or accidental death; (6) Pig's-cot, (7) Pig-cote or Pig-coit, a pig-sty; (8) Pig-cratch, a low table or bench with handles on which pigs are killed and dressed; (9) Pig-cree, Pig-creeve, or Pig-creevy, (10) Pig's-crew, Pig-crough, or Pig-crow, see (7); (11) Pig-dilly, a cart used for the transfer of pigs; (12) Pig-foot, to draw the half-beers of a warp through one another so that they will not open to wind on; (13) Pig-footed, of a warp: having the half-beers drawn through one another; (14) Pig-form, a flat frame on which pigs are laid to be killed; (15) Pig's fraw, the ‘fry’ of a pig, the liver, lights, heart, &c. sold for frying; (16) Pig's frill, the mesentery of a pig; (17) Pig-('s fry, see (15); (18) Pig-greean or Pig-groin, the snout of a pig; (19) Pig's hack, the rough fat from the inside of a pig; (20) Pig-hole or Pig-hull, (21) Pig's-house or pigs' house, see (7); (22) Pig-keepin, driving and watching over pigs; (23) Pig-ken, see (7); (24) Pig-killing, the occasion or day on which the stock of pigs kept on a farm is killed; also used attrib.; (25) Pig's-kit, the trough from which a pig feeds; (26) Pig-loom, see (1); (27) Pig's-loose, Pig-looze, or Pig-lews, see (7); (28) Pig's-louse, a wood-louse; (29) Pig-marine, a volunteer; (30) Pig-('s-meat, (a) fresh pork, uncured meat from bacon-pigs; (b) food for pigs, pig-wash; swill, inferior or unpalatable food; (c) a crop of mixed corn; (31) Pig-minster, see (7); (32) Pig-muddle, disorder, mess; (33) Pig's-nose, a particular kind of apple; (34) Pig's-pant, a trotter; (35) Pig-pestil, the shank of a bacon-flitch; (36) Pig-potatoes, small potatoes; (37) Pig-pound, see (7); (38) Pig-('s-pudding or Pigs'-pudding, a black-pudding, hog's-pudding; (39) Pig-puzzle, a gate fixed to swing both ways to meet a post; (40) Pig-ring, a game at marbles; (41) Pig-roast, a ‘Mop-fair’ (q.v.); (42) Pig-running, a sport practised at rural festivities; see below; (43) Pig-saim, hog's lard, both in the bladder and in the layer; (44) Pig-seause, brawn; (45) Pig-stē, see (7); (46) Pig-steul, see (14); (47) Pig-sticker, a pig-killer; (48) Pig-sty-doors, trousers buttoned breeches fashion with flap fronts; (49) Pig-swarth, the rind or skin of bacon; (50) Pig-sweat, great haste; a ruffled temper; (51) Pig-swill, see (30, b); (52) Pig-swinyort, a dealer in pigs; (53) Pig-tail, a small candle; also used attrib.; (54) Pig-tree, see (7); (55) Pig-trotter, a pig's foot or trotter; (56) Pig-trough, (a) a ‘goafer’ or cake made of batter, baked over the fire in an iron instrument; (b) a broken or water-worn ammonite showing the cavities; (57) Pig-tub, see (1); (58) Pig's whisper, (a) a loud whisper meant to be heard; (b) a very low whisper; (c) a short space of time; (59) Pig-wick, the horizontal door above a pig's trough through which the food is poured; (60) Pig-wood, the smaller branches of an oak when lopped off and peeled; (61) Pig-yock, a wooden yoke put around the necks of pigs to keep them from forcing their way through hedges. (1) Nhb.1 (2) Lakel.2 (3) n.Yks., w.Yks. Pigchaps are nice rooasted ta breckfəst. Hoo mitch will yo' tack a pund fer t'pig-chaps? (W.H.) (4) e.Yks.1 Also plates of similar portions of the animal, sent round as presents to friends and neighbours. Lin.1, n.Lin.1 sw.Lin.1 I mak' 'em a present of pig-cheer nows and thens. He was charged with stealing a hamper of pig-cheer. (5) n.Lin.1 (6) s.Wor.1, Glo. (A.B.), Glo.1, Sus.1 (7) w.Yks. Th' owner coom to ax ‘who'd run away wi' his pig-coit door?’ Hartley Clock Alm. (1879) 23; w.Yks.2 w.Yks.3 Lan. We go'n into their pig-cote, ut's no pig in now, Brierley Cast upon World (1886) 12; Mak' a place for these roppits i' th' pig-coite, Ackworth Clog Shop Chron. (1896) 223. ne.Lan.1, Chs.1 Chs.3, s.Chs.1, nw.Der.1, n.Lin.1, s.Wor. (H.K.), Shr.1, w.Cy. (Hall.) (8) n.Lin. He... lugged forth a pig cratch, Peacock J. Markenfield (1874) I. 134; n.Lin.1 (9) Nhb.1 (10) N.I.1, nw.Der.1, Dev. (Hall.) Cor. A pig's-crow and a midden, J. Trenoodle Spec. Dial. (1846) 39; Morton Cyclo. Agric. (1863); Cor.1 Cor.2 (11) Som. (W.F.R.) (12) Lan. The weaver winds on with what is called a raith. Every half-beer has a certain number of ends in; they are laid on the raith teeth equally and should open out without crossing one another. Every weaver should weave his own warp, then he would not pig-foot it (S.W.). (13) Lan. (S.W.); As cross as a pig-foowted warp, Brierley Layrock (1864) viii. (14) Cum.4 (15) w.Yks.3 (16) War.3 (17) n.Yks. (T.S.), n.Lin.1, s.Wor.1, Glo. (A.B.) (18) n.Yks.2, w.Yks. (J.W.) (19) Chs.1 (20) n.Cy. Holloway. Cum. Linton Lake Cy. (1864) 309. n.Yks.3 w.Yks. They wor crooidled up in a pig-hoil, Dewsbre Olm. (1876) 12; w.Yks.1 w.Yks.2 w.Yks.3 Lan. Acres of land lying... between a certain Pyghull of William Gerard, of Ince,.. and a highway, Warrington in 1465, ed. Beamont (1849) 65. ne.Lan.1 (21) Dev. Hewett Peas. Sp. (1892) 109; The ordinary closed pigsty is always called ‘peg's-'ouze,’ Reports Provinc. (1893). (22) Brks.1 Driving pigs to corn stubble and having whips to prevent them from straying; this work is much appreciated by boys. (23) m.Yks.1 About Leeds (s.v. Padding-can). (24) n.Yks.1 A large number of pigs is always a part of the stock of a Dales farmer, and the pig-killing is a kind of high-day at which the neighbours are invited to be present and to assist, concluding the day with a social party at the inviting farmer's house. n.Lin.1 ‘Pig-killing-time,’ winter (pigs are slaughtered at that time). (25) Nhb.1 Hence applied to a messy condition in eating. ‘Ye he' the tyebel like a pig's-kit.’ (26) Nhp.1 A large sunk receptacle, lined with brick or stone for the reception of pigs' or hogs' wash (s.v. Loom). (27) w.Dor. Roberts Hist. Lyme Regis (1834). Som. Jennings Obs. Dial. w.Eng. (1825). e.Som. W. & J. Gl. (1873). w.Som.1 John Gadd do want to have a new pig's-looze, but I told him the rent was to low already. Dev. Horae Subsecivae (1777) 327; Only applied to an open pigsty, or a shelter for pigs, Reports Provinc. (1893); Aw crimminy! I zeeth 'n; 'e's croped behind tha peg's lews wall, Hewett Peas. Sp. (1892) 66; Dev.1 n.Dev. I've a zent to thee pegs-looze... two young zows, Rock Jim an' Nell (1867) st. 73. s.Dev. Fox Kingsbridge (1874). (28) w.Som. (F.W.W.); w.Som.1 Peg·z laew·s. (29) w.Yks.3 A term of contempt formerly applied to volunteers. (30, a) Stf. (M.B.) War.2; War.3 Some friends in the Birmingham market were asked by a countryman if they would buy a chicken or some pig-meat. s.Wor. ‘I thought I'd make me some soup as long as we had some pig-meat in th' house.’ Pig-meat is the lean of a bacon pig, distinct from pork (H.K.). s.Wor.1 Hrf.2 Parts of a pig eaten before being salted down. Glo. (A.B.), Glo.1, Oxf. (G.O.), Oxf.1 MS. add., Sus.1, Wil.1 (b) Gall. A pail of pigs' meat in her hand, Crockett Grey Man (1896) 233. n.Yks.4 The refuse of the kitchen and dinner-table gathered together, and saved with other swill in a tub for pig-food. e.Yks.1 Slops and refuse food; bran, refuse corn, &c. w.Yks. (J.W.) w.Som.1 When very fluid it is often spoken of as ‘clear meat.’ Dev. She looked well after the ‘pig-meat,’ and rose early to cream her milk set overnight, O'Neill Idyls (1892) 118. nw.Dev.1, Cor.3 (c) n.Yks.1 Usually bigg and oats, sometimes with a proportion of wheat among it, specially grown for consumption in fattening the pigs. (31) n.Lin.1 I'm buildin' squire sum pig-minsters. (32) Wil.1 (33) Dev.4 (34) Lin. (J.C.W.) (35) w.Yks. Ah've hed some broth made aht ov a pig-pestil (B.K.). (36) Wil.1 Usually boiled up for the pigs. (37) Ken.1, Sur.1 (38) e.Dur.1 (s.v. Puddings), Lei.1 War.2 Blood, groats, and fat, highly spiced, boiled, and put into skins; War.3, se.Wor.1 (39) Brks.1 So that an animal pushing it from either side cannot get through. (40) Brks.1 A ring is made about four feet in diameter, and boys ‘shoot’ in turn from any point in the circumference, keeping such marbles as they may knock out of the ring, but losing their own ‘taw’ if it should stop within. (41) Wor. (E.S.) (42) Nhp.1 A large pig, with the tail well soaped, is turned out and chased by young men and boys, as a prize for the first who can retain his hold of the struggling animal. (43) n.Yks.2 (44) Lan. Adorned the tea-table with... a nice bit of pig seause, Ackworth Clog Shop Chron. (1896) 190. (45) War.2 (46) Cum.4 (47) w.Yks. (J.W.), Not.1 (48) War.2 (49) n.Yks.1 n.Yks.2 n.Yks.4 ne.Yks.1 Ho'd thi noise; here's a bit o' pig-swath for tha. (50) w.Yks.5 In a pig-swēat. (51) n.Lin.1 (52) Chs.1, nw.Der.1 (53) w.Yks. The least [candle] put in to make weight, Thoresby Lett. (1703); w.Yks.1 The watching of the pig-tail was a ceremony observed in Craven, amongst many others, on the eve of St. Mark. On that evening, a party of males and females, but never a mixed company, place on the floor a lighted pigtail, for so a small or farthing candle is denominated. This, however, must be previously stolen, otherwise it loses its prognostic effects. They then sit down, in solemn silence, and fix their eyes attentively on the taper. The doors and cupboards are never locked, lest the violent attacks of the evil spirit should break them. When it begins to burn blue, the person, whom they are respectively to marry, will make his appearance and walk across the room; w.Yks.4 Lan. With what patience she watched, on the eve of St. Agnes, the ‘pig-tail,’ Thornber Hist. Blackpool (1837) 103; On the fast of St. Agnes she watches a small candle called a ‘pig-tail,’ to see the passing image of her future husband, Harland & Wilkinson Flk-Lore (1867) 140. ne.Lan.1 (54) n.Cy. (Hall.) (55) Lon. The ham-sandwich men and pig-trotter women will give you notice when the time is come, Mayhew Lond. Labour (1851) I. 18. (56 a, b, 57) n.Lin.1 (58, a) N.I.1 (b) Nhp.1 (c) I'll do't in a pig's-whisper, Nhp.1 (59) Hmp. (H.E.) (60) s.Chs.1 (61) n.Lin.1 2. Comb. in names of plants: (1) Pig-berry, the haw or fruit of the hawthorn, Crataegus Oxyacantha; (2) Pig's-bubble(s, (3) Pig's-cole, the cow-parsnip, Heracleum Sphondylium; (4) Pig's-ears, the biting stonecrop, Sedum acre, and other varieties of stonecrop; (5) Pig's-eyes, the cuckoo-flower, Cardamine pratensis; (6) Pig's-foot, the bird's-foot trefoil, Lotus corniculatus; (7) Pig-grass, (a) the knot-grass, Polygonum aviculare; (b) the persicaria, Polygonum Persicaria; (c) the sweet vernal grass, Anthoxanthum odoratum; (8) Pig's-grease, the brook-lime, Veronica Beccabunga; (9) Pig-i'-the-hedge, the wild sloe, Prunus spinosa; (10) Pig-leaves, (a) the cotton thistle, Onopordon Acanthium; (b) the meadow plume-thistle, Carduus pratensis; (11) Pig's-noses, the hip or fruit of the dog-rose, Rosa canina; (12) Pig's parsley, the wild parsley, Caucalis Anthriscus; (13) Pig's parsnip, see (3); (14) Pig's pettitoes, see (6); (15) Pig('s rose, the dog-rose, Rosa canina; (16) Pig-rush, see (7, a); (17) Pig-tail, the goose-grass, Galium Aparine; (18) Pig-violet, the wood violet, Viola sylvatica; (19) Pig-weed, (a) see (3); (b) see (7, a); (c) the white goosefoot, Chenopodium album; (d) the comfrey, Symphytum officinale; (20) Pig-wick, the soft meadow-grass or duffel-grass, Holcus mollis; (21) Pig's-wrack, a kind of sea-wrack; see below. (1) Wil. Slow Gl. (1892); Wil.1 (2) Som. Extensively collected as food for pigs, which are very fond of it. w.Som.1 Usual name about Wellington. Pigs are very fond of it, and cottagers gather it about in the hedges. (3, 4) Dev.4 (5) Ess. (6) Suf. (7, a) n.Yks., e.Yks. (B. & H.), s.Not. (J.P.K.), sw.Lin.1 Shr. Science Gossip (1870) 228; Shr.1 (b) Lin. They calls it pig-grass because it amost grows by pig-sties (W.M.E.F.). (c) n.Yks. (8) Dor. (G.E.D.) (9) Hmp. (W.M.E.F.) (10, a) n.Cy. Grose (1790). e.Yks. Marshall Rur. Econ. (1788). w.Yks. Lees Flora (1888) 277. (b) n.Cy., n.Yks.2 e.Yks. Marshall Rur. Econ. (1796). (11) Dev. (12) w.Som.1 (13) Shr.1 Shr.2, w.Cy. (Hall.), w.Som.1 (14) Sus.1 (s.v. Pattens and Clogs). (15) s.Dev. (G.E.D.), Cor. (16) Shr.1 The pest of light soils in some parts of Salop. (17) Nhp.1 (18) Chs.1 (19, a) Oxf. Science Gossip (1882) 165. (b) Wor., Hmp.1 (c) Hmp.1 (d) Wil.1 (20) w.Yks. Lees Flora (1888) 483. (21) n.Ir. Probably Chondrus crispus (B. & H.); N.I.1 Boiled with meal or potatoes, and given as food for pigs. 3. Phr. (1) a pig to be shaved, a sarcastic explanation of a crowd assembling to watch some point of interest; (2) as happy as a pig in muck, indolently content with a state of dirt; (3) pig dack, pig dack, (4) pig, pig, pig, a call to pigs; (5) the pigs ran through it, something interfered to prevent the arrangement being carried out; (6) to be like a pig in a well, to be without visible means of support; (7) to be like a pig, to do no good alive, to be very covetous; (8) to be on the pig's back, to be prosperous; (9) to bring, take, call, &c. one's pigs to a bad, wrong, or fine market, to make a bad bargain; to make a mistake, to be disappointed; (10) to buy the pig in the poke, to buy anything unseen and so to make a bad bargain; (11) to drive one's pigs to market, (12) to drive pigs, to snore; (13) to get a pig out of the way, to cut up a pig after it is killed, salt it, and make mince-pies, sausages, &c. of it; (14) to have the pig on one's back, to be unfortunate; (15) to kill any one's pig for him, to cause any one serious disappointment or injury; (16) we don't kill a pig every day, merrymaking does not come every day; (17) what do you expect from a pig but a grunt, a proverb. saying. (1) n.Cy. (B.K.) (2) w.Yks. Very common (J.W.); w.Yks.1 (3) n.Yks. (I.W.) (4) Shr.1 (5) N.I.1 (6) n.Lin.1 A child who has no parents or guardians, or a person who has no visible means of subsistence, is said to be like a pig in a well. (7) w.Yks.1 Said of a covetous man, regardless of the happiness of others, whilst he is ever fruitlessly endeavouring to secure his own. (8) Ir. Nineteenth Cent. (July 1900) 81. (9) Frf. The maist feck o' folk were o' opinion that Jamie was ca'in' his pigs to a bad market, Willock Rosetty Ends (1886) 60, ed. 1889. e.Yks.1 A person who has fallen into trouble by his own foolishness or misconduct says, ‘Well, Ah've browt mi pigs tiv a bad mahkit.’ w.Yks. Leeds Merc. Suppl. (Feb. 22, 1896); w.Yks.1 ‘He has brought 'is pigs to a fine market,’ ... he has been very unsuccessful in business. It is, however, often used ironically. n.Lin.1 To take your ‘pigs to a wrong market.’ Nhp.1 You've brought your pigs to a fine market. Hnt. (T.P.F.) Colloq. A pretty market I brought my pigs to, Besant & Rice Mortiboy (1872) xlii. (10) Sc. (A.W.) w.Yks. Doan't thee buy t'pig i' t'poake; if ta does, tha'll ten to one be letten in, Leeds Merc. Suppl. (Feb. 22, 1896); (J.W.) (11) Nhp.1, War.3 (12) w.Yks.1 (13) n.Lin.1 Ther's noäbody likes gettin' a pig oot o' th' waay better then me, bud I'm fairly stall'd to-year. (14) Ir. Nineteenth Cent. (July 1900) 81. (15, 16) n.Lin.1 (17) e.Yks. (Miss A.) 4. A boar; a hog of any size. Yks., Der. Grose (1790) MS. add. (P.) Cor. A boar is always a ‘pig,’ whilst a sheep under a year old is a ‘hog,’ Hammond Parish (1897) 340. 5. Comp. Pig-iron, a flat piece of iron hung between the fire and meat when roasting to retard the operation. It is hung on the bars by a hook. Suf.1 6. A particular weight of lead; see below. Dur.1 A piece of lead of an oblong shape from eight to twelve stone in weight. w.Yks.1 A piece of lead weighing 123 lb. Der.1 7. A segment of an apple or orange. Chs.1 Lin. N. & Q. (1877) 5th S. vii. 134. n.Lin.1 s.Hmp. ‘What beautiful fruit,’ said he, beginning to eat the ‘pigs’ into which she was cutting it, Verney L. Lisle (1870) vi. Wil.1 8. A wood-louse. Cf. pig's-louse. n.Lin.1, Rut. (J.P.K.), Rut.1, Nhp.1 (s.v. Old Sow). Wil.1 9. The shell of the mollusk Cypraeidae. Dor. Grose (1790) MS. add. (M.) [So called... from their resemblance to the body and back of a pig; otherwise a sow, Yule Hobson-Jobson (s.v. Porcelain).] 10. A small cushion used in knitting; see below. w.Yks.2 A knitting-pig is a small cushion made of wash-leather or other material and fastened to the waist by strings. It is used by women for keeping the knitting-needle steady. 11. A game resembling tip-cat. Cf. piggy, sb. w.Yks.3 Well known, but comparatively new here. 12. v. To feed and attend to pigs. Dev. I've washed and baked and pigged for my father these seven years, Baring-Gould Dartmoor Idylls (1896) 131. 13. To supply or provide with pigs. s.Wor. I dooesn't waant no pigs; I be pigged up fahrish, Outis Vig. Mon. in Berrow's Jrn. 14. To bring forth pigs. Sc. She deid the last time she piggit, Tennant Vill. Notes (1900) 170. n.Cy., Yks. (J.W.) 15. To herd or crowd together; to sleep more than one in a bed; to have crowded, uncomfortable quarters. Sc. (A.W.) Nhb. Eight of us had to pig in thegither, Graham Red Scaur (1896) 18. Lakel.2 Ye mun pig-in as well as ye can. Cum.1 Come, barns, pig in to bed wi' ya. e.Yks.1 w.Yks. Abaht twenty lodgers pigg'd together an' all ate an' slept i' one hoil (Æ.B.); w.Yks.1 w.Yks.2 Lan.1 They pig o' of a rook i' one room. e.Lan.1, s.Chs.1, Der.2, Not.1, n.Lin.1 Lei.1 Teddy can come to dadda's bed, an' you an' Sam can pig together. Brks.1 Sus., Hmp. Holloway. w.Som.1 There was nine o' um all a-pig together in thick there little bit of a 'ouze. Dev., Cor. Her parents' cottage, where the whole family pig in one room, Baring-Gould Old Cy. Life (1890) xii. Cor. We can't pig it as did our ancestors, Baring-Gould Curgenven (1893) xvii. 16. To pitch off a horse or ass. n.Lin.1

PIG, sb.2 Sc. Irel. n.Cy. Nhb. Also written pigg Sc.; and in form peg- Nhb.1 [pig.] 1. An earthenware jar or pitcher; a stone bottle. Sc. Where the pig's broken let the sherds lie, Ferguson Prov. (1641) 34. Sh.I. Fetch yon pig 'at doo üs'd ta tak drink ta da hill, Sh. News (May 13, 1899). Or.I. Ellis Pronunc. (1889) V. 805, 810. Cai.1 Abd. She hedna a pig teem, Alexander Johnny Gibb (1871) vi. Kcd. Grant Lays (1884) 8. Frf. There are mair broon pigs comes tae the manse than tae ony ither hoose i' the parish, Inglis Ain Flk. (1895) 20. Per. Made his money by selling pigs, Ian Maclaren Auld Lang Syne (1895) 3. Slg. Wodrow Soc. Sel. Biog. (ed. 1845-1847) I. 340. Ayr. Having got the pig with the wonted allowance of broth and beef in it, Galt Provost (1822) xxxviii. Lnk. Muir Minstrelsy (1816) 47. Lth. Pigs for haudin pickled berries, Thomson Poems (1819) 74. Edb. Just a muckle pig For ha'din' kail or 'tatoes, Forbes Poems (1812) 31. Gall. ‘Hae ye ought i' the pig the day?’ is a common salutation when friendly neighbours meet at others houses, Mactaggart Encycl. (1824) 240, ed. 1876. n.Cy. Border Gl. (Coll. L.L.B.) Nhb.1 Brown, coarse earthenware. 2. Comb. (1) Pig-ass, an ass used to draw a cart filled with crockery; (2) Pig-man, a dealer in crockery; (3) Pig-penny-horse, a child's money-box made in the form of a small earthenware horse; (4) Pig-shop, a crockery shop, china shop; (5) Pig-wife, a female vendor of crockery. (1) Bnff. Frae Phoebus' beams ye apes retire Wi' your pig-asses, Taylor Poems (1787) 79. (2) Lnk. Pigmen and cadgers, barrow-men and weavers, Muir Minstrelsy (1816) 8. Lth. Pigmen, an' grocer folk, an' bakers, Were on the rump o' business ridin', Lumsden Sheep-head (1892) 152. (3) Lth. Whaur wee pig penny horses pranced, Whaur crowds o' bairnies gazed entranced, Ballantine Poems (1856) 9. (4) Sc. (Jam.) Per. His father keepit a pig shop, Ian Maclaren K. Carnegie (1896) 226. (5) Sc. Already has the pig-wife's early care Marked out a station for her crockery ware, Blackw. Mag. (Jan. 1821) 423 (Jam.). Bnff. Some ape poets may be said rather to lead pig-wives' cripple asses, Taylor Poems (1787) 79 note. Abd. Vagrant lodgers ─ Wi' tinklers, knaves, pig-wives, and cadgers, Walker Bards Bon-Accord (1887) 459. Ayr. Come, my auld princess o' pig-wives, Ainslie Land of Burns (ed. 1892) 147. Edb. Wi's pig-wife Kate, that begs, Carlop Green (1793) 129, ed. 1817. Gall. Mactaggart Encycl. (1824). 3. A hot-water bottle. Also called Piggy or Peggy. Sc. Shall I put a pig in your bed to keep you warm? Ford Thistledown (1891) 152; This nicht is cauld, my leddy, Wad ye please, To hae a pig i' the bed to warm your taes? Leighton Wds. (1869) 7. Nhb.1 An earthenware bottle filled with hot water and used as a foot warmer in bed by delicate people. 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. 4. A chamber-pot. Abd. He niest fell in wi' Mungo's wig, An' Lowrie's sneeshin' mill, Sae stapit baith in Kettie's pig, An' steepit them right weel 'Mang strang, Cock Strains (1810) II. 137; Into my putrid channel At nicht each wifie tooms her pig, Ogg Willie Waly (1873) 71. 5. A flower-pot. Sc. A rich Glasgow manufacturer... sent for a London artist to decorate the panels in the principal cabin [of his yacht]. The artist asked what kind of decoration he required. The reply was, ‘Ony thing simple, just a pig wi' a flower,’ Mackay. 6. A can for a chimney-top for increasing the draught. Sc. (Jam.) Ayr. Pigs from the lum-heads came rattling down like thunderclaps, Galt Provost (1822) xxiv. 7. Any piece of earthenware, a potsherd. Sc. (Jam.) Hence (1) Pigger, sb. an earthenware marble; (2) Piggery, sb. (a) the place where earthenware is manufactured, a pottery; (b) a crockery shop; (c) earthenware crockery. (1) Abd. A' kinds o' bools ─ marble, stoner, and pigger, Cadenhead Bon-Accord (1853) 249. Frf. Our bools were known as piggers, marleys, and sclaiteys, Inglis Ain Flk. (1895) 94. (2, a) Sc. (Jam.) (b) Cld. JAM. (c) Abd. There will be sold... a quantity of haberdash, an' gin ony body wants to ken what that is, it's piggery, Paul Abd. (1881) 46. 8. Phr. (1) pigs and whistles, a mass of foolish, inconvenient furniture or nick-nacks; (2) to go to pigs and whistles, to go to wreck and ruin. (1) Gall. Mactaggart Encycl. (1824). (2) Cai.1 Dmb. If it's this black and that black, ye should surely be glad to think it's gaun a' to pigs and whussles, Cross Disruption (1844) xxix. Ayr. The place a' gaun to pigs and whussles, Service Notandums (1890) 1. Lnk. He... married my auld school companion, Mary Mathieson, and immediately thereafter gaed a' to ‘pigs and whistles,’ Roy Generalship (ed. 1895) 16. Edb. The back-ga'en tenant fell ahint, And cou'dnae stand; So he to pygs and whistles went, And left the land, Har'st Rig (1794) 18, ed. 1801. n.Ir. Iverything's gaun tae pigs an' whussels, Lyttle Paddy McQuillan 102. [1. Argus Was porturit thayr... Furth of ane payntit pyg, Douglas Eneados (1513) III. 139, ed. 1874.]

PIG, sb.1 Irel. Cum. Yks. Lan. War. Pem. Glo. Also in form peg Glo. 1. In comb. (1) Pig-beauty, good looks, attractiveness; (2) Pig's-cote, a pig-sty; (3) Pig's foot, see below; (4) Pig's head, brawn; (5) Pig-market, in phr. you've been down the pig-market, see below; (6) Pig-potatoes, small, diseased potatoes; (7) Pig-puddings, the entrails of pigs; (8) Pig-tub, (a) a small tub to serve a pig; (b) a large tub to hold pig-meat. (1) Ir. She... seemed to have lost the pleasant freshness of colouring which mainly constitutes what the Irish call ‘pig-beauty,’ Barlow East unto West (1898). (2) s.Pem. (M.S.C.) (3) Cum. A mysterious growth which nurses and others prophesy will be the result if a trifling sore be neglected.‘ Dar! it's got that setten in; if the' dusn't min' it'll be a fair pig's foot afore aw's deunn’ (J.Ar.). (4) s.Lan.1 (5) War.2 Some say ‘You've been down the pig-market’: meaning that the person to whom the phrase is addressed might well have spent his time, recently, amongst the dealers, who are generally shrewd of wit, (&c. s.v. You've been in the knife box). (6, 7, 8) n.Yks. (I.W.) 2. Phr. as dark as a black peg, or pig, in a lantern, saying. Glo. (S.S.B.)

PIG, sb.3 Dor. A magpie. (E.C.M.)