Etymology

pigsny

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Today it means: An Elizabethan term of endearment. Full definition →

Middle English piggesnye
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  1. Middle English · inherited frompiggesnye
  2. English todaypigsny

From Middle English piggesnye (literally “pig's eye”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.