cold pig
cold pig noun: the act of throwing cold water over a sleeping individual to wake them.
Noun
cold pig (plural cold pigs)
- The 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)
Verb
cold pig (third-person singular simple present cold pigs, present participle cold pigging, simple past and past participle cold pigged)
Forms of cold pig
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | cold pigs |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | cold pigs |
| present participle | cold pigging |
| past participle | cold pigged |
| past | cold pigged |
Questions about cold pig
- What does cold pig mean?
- Cold pig means the act of throwing cold water over a sleeping individual to wake them.
- What part of speech is cold pig?
- Cold pig can be a noun or a verb.
- What is the plural of cold pig?
- The plural of cold pig is cold pigs.
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