pigging

1. Damned (used as a mild intensive).

   I can't get this pigging computer to work.

   Synonyms: blasted, blooming, confounded, damned

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of pig

plural piggings

1. engineeringThe use of a pig (the device) to clean a pipeline.

   The main reason for the high efficiencies obtained over previous piggings can be attributed to the vented swabs with the check valve.

   1955, American Gas Association, Proceedings, volume 37, page 1083

plural piggings

1. alternativeAlternative form of piggin.

   He had his tea and hot rolls in a morning, while we were battening upon our quarter-of-a-penny loaf — our crug — moistened with attenuated small beer, in wooden piggings, smacking of the pitched leathern jack it was poured from.

   1823, Charles Lamb, Essays of Elia