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cold pigs

cold pigs is the plural of cold pig.

cold pigs is the third-person singular simple present indicative of cold pig.

Meaning of cold pig

Noun

cold pig (plural cold pigs)

  1. (dated, slang) 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)

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Questions about cold pigs

What is cold pigs the plural of?
Cold pigs is the plural of cold pig.

Words near cold pigs in the dictionary

  1. cold patches
  2. cold patching
  3. cold pig
  4. cold pigged
  5. cold pigging
  6. cold pigs
  7. cold pole
  8. cold poles
  9. cold press
  10. cold presses
  11. cold pricklies

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