pig v.1
1. to live (with); often in phrs. below.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Scoffer Scoff’d (1765) 189: When I pig’d with mine own Dad. | |
![[Ire]](/static/img/flags/ire.png "Ireland") | Midas II i: Oh how happy I should be Would little Nysa pig with me. | |
| ‘Mistress Stitch in Clover’ in Nightly Sports of Venus 30: Robin was forc’d to make a third, And pig with Bodkin and his Dame. | |
| Real Life in Ireland 193: Blake proposed calling in Swan, the exciseman, who pigg’d in the next room. | |
| Comic Songster and Gentleman’s Private Cabinet 34: [title] A Blowen in a Alley Pigg’d. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Bulletin (Sydney) 19 Nov. 14/1: A man came up from South, and, pigging with gins, begat half-caste youngsters. |
2. to live in a slovenly manner or under poor conditions; thus pig it
| Great News from Hell 15: I knew you in Ireland, when you was glad to pig with a Carr-boy for a Cut of Bread and a Drink of Beer. | |
| Burlesque Homer (3rd edn) 386: And many a merry night when tipsy, / We pigg’d in straw with each a gypsy. | |
| ‘Llandisilio Hotel’ in Hilaria 128: A parson, his wife, son, and Jew / [...] / A poet pedestrian too, / Pig’d in a mud hut all together. | |
| Spirit of Irish Wit 181: ‘What, another child!’ said the farmer, almost frantic [...] [3rd child born] ‘d—n it, Nanny, is your mistress pigging?’. | |
| Mammon in London 1 314: You’ll see wives and their sisters pigging together with the same man [...] and lightning each other to the same bed. | |
| Peeping Tom (London) 38 151/2: ‘Why don’t we all pig here to night?’. | |
| Sportsman 7 Mar. 2/1: Notes on News [...] England is plethoric with wealth, yet we see men and women almost forced to pig together thus . | |
| London Life 26 July 6/2: [I]n these places [i.e. Seven Dials], human beings pig together and breed a race to infest our streets. | |
| How the Poor Live 59: A certain vigorous letter [...] which appeared in the Daily Telegraph some years ago about servants ‘pigging with their relations at home,’ and wanting the best bedroom and a feather-bed with damask furniture when in service. | |
| Sun. Times (Perth) 16 June 4/7: In a tenement building in the squalid Whitechapel slums, five families were found pigging in one apartment. | |
![[Can]](/static/img/flags/can.png "Canada") | ‘Telegraph Operator’ Ballads of a Cheechako 93: I ‘pig’ around the place – / There’s nobody to care. |
3. to eat, esp. in a greedy fashion, to overeat.
| Bulletin (Sydney) 16 Nov. 40/1: The loaf has unmistakably been rent in twain, the saucers have had a generous overflow, the cloth a liberal baptism, and everywhere is evidence that the breakfasters have ’pigged‘ in haste. | |
| Living Black 242: They were big, fat, heavy gutted people in there: shouting, bullying, pigging. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Skeletons 96: I pigged everything. | |
| Way Past Cool 25: Like the Beaver might have looked at sixteen if he’d been black and pigging for years on junk food. | |
| Campus Sl. Spring. |
4. to provide with food.
| Three-Ha’Pence to the Angel 68: Yer want someone ter get you something ’ot when yer come in. Your daughter, she wouldn’t mind, I’m shore; y’ave enough o’ pigging for yourself when you’re away. |
In phrases
to eat hurriedly and greedily.
| Fixx 261: The meal you’re pigging down this very minute. | |
| Get Your Cock Out 32: The crowded room of freeloaders pigging down on the caviar and champagne. |
1. to share a home, to live (with); usu. as pig in with.
| ‘Poet’s Ramble after Riches’ Writings (1704) 16: Why, what dost take me for a hog, / A Pedlar, drover, or a carman, / To here Pig in among such Vermin? | |
| Burlesque Homer (3rd edn) 438: The Thracians pig in by themselves. | |
| Modern Chivalry (1937) Pt I Vol. IV Bk I 272: I think Duncan and you [...] may pig in together in that large bed. | |
| ‘International Boat Race’ in Curiosities of Street Lit. (1871) 146: To get lodging, oh, such a bother, / They all pig in with one another. | |
![[Scot]](/static/img/flags/sco.png "Scotland") | Dundee Courier 18 Aug. 7/4: That was our bed, six of us, having to ‘pig’ down into it. | |
| No. 5 John Street 111: Nearly ninety thousand live three in a box; nay, they are still in thousands as they pig in seven to the four square walls. | |
| Gem 17 Oct. 4: Third Form kids can’t pig in with [...] seigniors of the Fourth Form. | |
| Bulletin (Sydney) 19 Dec. 15/1: The beach-combing combo pigs-in with Malays, Javanese and Chows, and is a person to be avoided or destroyed. | |
![[NZ]](/static/img/flags/nz.png "New Zealand") | For the Rest of Our Lives 27: There was a lot to be said for living with men [...] all pigging in together. |
2. to gorge oneself; often as exhortation pig in!
| Magnet 22 Feb. 9: Better than pigging in here. | |
| Thanksgiving 94: I went up to the galley and scored a couple of teaspoons, and we proceeded to pig in. |
1. to live in squalor, albeit unworried by that squalor.
| Man o’ War’s Man (1843) 23: I’m not like that lazy humbug, Higgins, who sits loitering and pigging it away in the galley. | |
| Tents of Shem II 58: Impossible! You’d have to pig it with the goats and the cattle. | |
| N.Z. Truth 26 Jan. 6/4: The Fijians and Cook Islanders have been pigged out on the Exhibition grounds. | |
| Adventures of Mrs May 170: You ain’t never knowed a char-lady like me. And [...] you’ve evident been used to pigging it. | |
| Brothers Sackville 194: This is my sister. [...] We pig it here together somehow. | |
| None But the Lonely Heart 115: Parlour? Anybody think we was pigging it in Streatham, or something. | |
| Come in Spinner (1960) 229: As for pigging it in that rural slum again, I’m not going to do it. | |
| Little Men, Big World 146: He and Lola had been pigging it downstairs before: this was the life! | |
| Round the Clock at Volari’s 20: Jim would laugh and say that he was just a Bohemian at heart, or that he liked to pig it, or that it was cheap, which it was not. | |
| Family Arsenal 162: Don’t mind me – I usually pig it around the house. |
2. to renege.
| Autobiog. of a Thief 296: Even the copper began to pig it (weaken), probably thinking he might as well get a share of my ‘dough’. | |
| ‘A Piece of Pie’ in Runyon on Broadway (1954) 675: Never let it be said that a Conway ever pigs it on a betting proposition. |
3. to prosper.
| Hell on Hoe Street 167: They reckoned his family was pigging it. |
1. to die.
| , , | | Sl. Dict. 155: To die [...] pigging out. |
 | Kalgoorlie Wester Argus (WA) 31 Oct. 14: When men died in California they ‘pigged out’ just as they do in Australia to the present day. | |
| ‘It Comes Up Mud’ in Runyon on Broadway (1954) 536: The old Governor has bum legs and is half out of wind and is apt to pig it any time. |
2. (also pig up) to overeat massively; ext. as pig out on (a food or drink).
| ‘Peas, Beans And Cabbages’ in Knowing Chaunter 6: My wife, my maid, and I, / All the whole of one day / We went p---g away, / Upon peas, beans, and cabbages! | |
| Ruggles of Red Gap (1917) 351: Rather pigged it a bit, I fancy. | |
| Dict. Service Sl. n.p.: pigging up . . . eating sweetmeats hungrily. | |
| Newsweek 30 May 53: Kim admits to being a ‘sweetaholic’ who dieted resolutely before winning the beauty pageant in Charleston, S.C., then ‘pigged out’ on pecan pie. | |
| Tourist Season (1987) 260: Fix up a nice big plate of sargassum. We’ll pig out. | |
| Teenage Wasteland 118: Traditional American girlcult activities: shopping, pigging out. | |
| White Shoes 82: Les [was] happy just to pig out while the two lovers got revved up on Moët. | |
| Guardian G2 14 Jan. 20: Like pigging out on a pack of chocolate digestives. | |
| My War (2006) 22: My friends pigged out on those pot brownies. | |
| The Force [ebook] ‘You don’t go bowling. That’s just a cover to pig out, get drunk and fuck cheap whores’. | |
| Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit 222: A crowd of bodacious partiers had pigged out on the whole foodscape. | |
| Empty Wigs (t/s) 291: He just likes watching - and pigging out, scraping the buffet clean. |
3. (also pig up) to overindulge in anything.
| Darling Buds of May (1985) 97: He and his wife somehow pigged it out in a keeper’s cottage instead. | |
| Airtight Willie and Me 97: My pussy has hooked his nose tougher than the crystal blow he pigs up. | |
| Dreamcatcher 429: With you driving my body and pigging out on my emotions. | |
| Great Falls Trib. (MT) 11 Oct. 51/4: Last week the Bobcats and their fans were pigging out on points. |
4. to treat someone to a (large) meal.
| Way Past Cool 70: Told him to meet us tonight at the Burger king. Always help to pig em out first, specially the hungry ones. |
to live together, often spec. to sleep together.
| (trans.) Gargantua and Pantagruel (1927) II Bk V 623: pan.: How do you pig together? fri.: Bare. | |
| Provoked Wife IV vi: Now, you being as dirty and as nasty as myself, we may go pig together. | |
| Gentleman Instructed Pt III 537: When Reason sleeps Extravagance breaks loose; Quality and Peasantry pig together. | |
| , , | | Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. |
| Lex. Balatronicum. | |
| Billy Taylor I iv: All you young sailor-boys must pig together. | |
| ‘Jack Junk’ in Flash Minstrel! in Spedding & Watt (eds) Bawdy Songbooks (2011) I 113: They had a shelter from the weather / [...] / And in one bed they pig’d together. | |
| ‘Tale of a Trumpet’ Poetical Works (1906) 602/1: The fourteen Murphys all pigg’d together. | |
| Essay on Sir William Temple in Works IV (1866) 258: But he hardly thinks that the sufferings of a dozen felons pigging together on bare bricks in a hole fifteen feet square would form a subject suited to the dignity of history. | |
| My Diary in America I 353: A ‘camp’ of travellers who pig in one room together, twenty strong. | |
| In Strange Company 30: They would sooner ‘pig’ together on the boards than lie in separate beds. | |
| Workingman’s Paradise 6: One of her fits of indignation against pigging together. | |
| Aus. Sl. Dict. 58: Pig-together, sleep together. | |
| Marsh 349: Me and the boys pig together very nicely. |