Definitions

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Damned (used as a mild intensive).
  • noun The action of the verb to pig.
  • verb Present participle of pig.

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word pigging.

Examples

  • I would've usually been keen, but given a less than ideal stomach, and no toilet on the bus, I didn't really savour the idea of pigging out on the food.

    TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010

  • Lindsay is a good weight, and if she and her sister are so called pigging out what about Ali?

    X17 Online 2010

  • Moreover, congressional staffers investigating the pipeline shutdown received numerous reports that the oil company had abandoned the idea of "pigging" its eastern pipeline after the 1992 inspection dislodged so much sludge that it fouled the pipeline screens, according to Texas Republican Joe Barton, chairman of the Commerce Committee.

    BP's So Sorry 2006

  • During this outage we have bought forward some plant maintenance activities that were planned at the end of August and September, such as pigging, screen change in the ore processing plant and shovel maintenance.

    SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page 2010

  • "pigging", Frances said -- and Deb agreed with her -- although when

    Sisters Ada Cambridge 1885

  • He found to his amusement that the profligate were by many degrees duller than the pious, but that the most tedious of all were the persons who preached promiscuity, and called their system of "pigging" the "New

    The Hill of Dreams Arthur Machen 1905

  • It's a mixture of not being comfortable pigging out in front of someone else, and being too focused on first impressions/talking to the other person/looking dainty that I can't just chow down and enjoy myself.

    Archive 2009-04-01 zombietron 2009

  • It's a mixture of not being comfortable pigging out in front of someone else, and being too focused on first impressions/talking to the other person/looking dainty that I can't just chow down and enjoy myself.

    No-Hump Day zombietron 2009

  • By all means send the boys pigging out Thargo way, Quokka.

    Cheeseburger Gothic » Because the ladies have been relatively well behaved… 2010

  • No matter what that inspirational sneaker commercial says on TV, you are a little nuts, and no matter what, next July you're totally going to be pigging out on fried clams.

    Think Cold Thoughts, New York Jason Gay 2011

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.