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“The joy of being on horseback and in the world of horses — the world of hunting and racing, polo and pigsticking!”
“A few gruff, jerky sentences about polo and pigsticking, and a catalogue of Indian stations and the names of regiments, were the best he could do.”
“I hope it goes on a nice long time; but pigsticking will be the only tolerable pursuit after this or one will die of sheer ennui. ”
“In pigsticking only well-grown boars are pursued, sows and immature boars being unmolested.”
“You'll probably meet her to-day; for she generally comes out pigsticking with us, though she doesn't carry a spear.”
“It was all very well; but I was very envious when the regiment came here and you wrote and told me of the pigsticking you were getting.”
“For he and his companion were going as the guests of the Maharajah of Mandha for a day's pigsticking, as hunting the wild boar is termed in India.”
“The only distractions it offered besides the shooting and pigsticking were two tennis afternoons weekly, one at the Residency, the other at the Mess.”
“Another sport was one similar to pigsticking as it is practised in India, except that instead of pigs native women and children were stuck with the lances.”
Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery — Volume 8
“On such occasions there was fine pigsticking, and then the atmosphere in the caves would be made fascinating with the odor of roasting suckling.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘pigsticking’.
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Against Nature
Inspired by the creepy decadence of Against Nature by Joris-Karl Huysmans.
katzenklavier, pasilalinic-sympa..., the jewel-encrust..., bird's nest soup, ghost net, bottom trawling, coal industry, cat juggling, rattlesnake roundup, fishing, dancing bear, defoliant and 89 more...
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Swine
For more aporkalyptic fun, see madmouth's Everything's better with a pig in it.
For "references to the Dursleys in Wizard People, Dear Reader, Brad Neely's cosmos-shattering voiceover ...swine, pig, hog, boar, pork, pork bellies, hog cholera, swineherd, pigsty, swine flu, oink, pig in a blanket and 188 more...
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Morbid Curiosity: Words You Should Be...
This has the potential to be the scariest list on Wordie.
merkin, meat, shingles, vomit, goiter, incision, abattoir, erysipelas, ebola, maggot, blood, episiotomy and 51 more...
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Monovocalics
Words that have only one of the vowels. On this list I include only words with at least three vowels. When I first started the list, if a word had several forms, I generally listed only the one wit...
syzygy, mirific, cumulus, homolog, monocot, bedewed, jezebel, referee, bikini, minikin, locomotor, terebenthene and 2359 more...
Tweets
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ruzuzu See pigsticker. Aug 4, 2011