pigg

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/pɪɡ/

noun

A piggin (“an earthenware vessel, jar, crock”).

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Meanings

pigg1

nounpigg (plural piggs)

plural piggs · alternative pig · alternative pyg

  1. Northern EnglandScotlandA piggin (“an earthenware vessel, jar, crock”).

    [a parcel of banknotes][…]lying useless here in this auld pigg

    1818 July 25, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, Second Series, […] (The Heart of Mid-Lothian), volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Company, →OCLC

pIgG2

nounpIgG (usually uncountable, plural pIgGs)

plural pIgGs

  1. abbreviationuncountableusuallybiologyAbbreviation of polyclonal immunoglobulin G.

PIgG3

nounPIgG (plural PIgGs)

plural PIgGs

  1. abbreviationbiologyAbbreviation of plasma immunoglobulin G.

Pigg4

proper nounPigg (plural Piggs)

plural Piggs

  1. A surname.

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
pigpiggin

Origin

Uncertain. Perhaps from pig (“swine”), due to the shape. Compare also Middle English pig (“a container for wine; the hide of a pig used as a wineskin”), from pigge (“pig”). More at pig.

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Rhymes & wordplay

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APA

pigg. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pigg

MLA

“pigg.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pigg. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “pigg,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pigg.

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