Definitions

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  • noun A little or young pig; a piglet.

Etymologies

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From pig +‎ -ling.

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Examples

  • Every black grinned like “Debil-debil,” for there was not one but knew that the perfidious Ned, and Lucy and the giddy piccaninny had eaten the pigling.

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  • Ned, whose theory it was that the pigling was still alive, but too frightened to respond to affectionate and soothing calls.

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  • The pigling squeaked when hungry (which was seldom), grunted when satisfied, snored when asleep (which was often) and spent all the time putting on fat; and its foster-parent saw more of beauty in its rapidly rotunding figure than did Lucy in her wrinkled and crumpled offspring.

    Last Leaves from Dunk Island 2003

  • About a month before the advent of the pigling, Lucy had made

    Last Leaves from Dunk Island 2003

  • Imprisoned in an improvised hutch, well padded and bedded with blady grass, the pigling forgot its brief experience of freedom, finding consolation in a diet of coco-nut milk.

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  • Through the undergrowth, Ned in advance, we struggled as fast as lawyer vines, the prickly raspberry (almost as obstructive as barbed wire), saplings and shrubs interwoven with creepers permitted; for did not humanity and love for delicately-fed pigling demand that the fugitive should not be altogether wasted on the dogs?

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  • George ignored the piccaninny, but took the pigling to his heart, ever and anon assuring the community that very soon it would be fat and tender.

    Last Leaves from Dunk Island 2003

  • Brooking no contrary opinion on the point, George decided the date of the execution of the pigling, foretelling a rare feast, and, of course, Ned and Lucy did their share of anticipatory gloating.

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  • As its fat increased the squeaks of the pigling mellowed into throaty grunts.

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  • Just as George had become reconciled to the loss of the pigling the piccaninny vanished — not alone either.

    Last Leaves from Dunk Island 2003

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