piggy adj.
1. (orig. Aus., also piggie) unpleasant; greedy.
Coburg Leader (Vic.) 27 Oct. 2/5: They Say [...] The captain of one of Hemingway’s teams has turned ‘piggy’ and sings ‘I won’t play with you any more’. | ||
Leader of the Lower School 129: ‘When I handed her my box of candied fruits, she picked out the very biggest!’ ‘How piggie!’. | ||
Patriotic Schoolgirl 81: ‘[I]t would be perfectly piggy to wear the same serge dress from breakfast to bedtime’. | ||
On the Beach 202: It’s so piggy here in the winter – nothing but rain and gales. | ||
Dud Avocado (1960) 194: Why are they all being so piggy? | ||
Broken Arse I v: You mean Piggyscrew, don’t ya? |
2. (US gay) sexually abandoned [stereotype of porcine sexuality].
Queens’ Vernacular 64: lewd, vulgar, pornographic [...] Piggie (‘Did things get piggie after ten?’). |