sowpig

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noun

A woodlouse.

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Meanings

nounsowpig (plural sowpigs)

plural sowpigs

  1. CornwallA woodlouse.

    The hatchling sowpigs (Cornwall) that leave the maternal pouch are tiny, soft and pale but soon harden up.

    2024, Dominic Couzens, Gail Ashton, A Year of Garden Bees and Bugs
    2 more examples

    […] he went in search of some sowpigs (woodlouse), and while doing this had the good fortune, in turning up a stone, to find the fly I had come after.

    1896, The Fishing Gazette, page 461

    […] sowpigs, all of which were in small stone enclosures. Moving about among the animals were Little Men who were dressed like farmers, but whether they were farmers or not he could not tell.

    2021, Enys Tregarthen, North Cornwall Fairies and Legends

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
woodlouse
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APA

sowpig. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sowpig

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“sowpig.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sowpig. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “sowpig,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sowpig.

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