cold pig

noun

The act of throwing cold water over a sleeping individual to wake them.

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Meanings

nouncold pig (plural cold pigs)

plural cold pigs

  1. datedslangThe act of throwing cold water over a sleeping individual to wake them.

    Pedestres tossed off the clothes and jumped out of bed as if they had dealt him a "cold pig:" — he bounced between them all to the other side of the room, and hastily thrust himself into that which was offered to him.

    1836, Pedestres (pseud.), Sir Clavileno Woodenpeg (knight of Snowdon, pseud.), A pedestrian tour of thirteen hundred and forty-seven miles through Wales and England (page 270)
verbcold pig (third-person singular simple present cold pigs, present participle cold pigging, simple past and past participle cold pigged)

present singular third person cold pigs · participle present cold pigging · participle past cold pigged · past cold pigged

  1. datedslangtransitiveTo throw cold water all over a sleeping individual's bed and body to wake them.
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