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pig-stickings

pig-stickings is the plural of pig-sticking.

Meaning of pig-sticking

Noun

pig-sticking (countable and uncountable, plural pig-stickings)

  1. (India, colloquial, dated) The hunting of boars.
    • Swankey of the Body Guard himself, that dangerous youth, and the greatest buck of all the Indian army now on leave, was one day discovered by Major Dobbin tête-à-tête with Amelia, and describing the sport of pig-sticking to her with great humour and eloquence […]1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

Questions about pig-stickings

What is pig-stickings the plural of?
Pig-stickings is the plural of pig-sticking.

Words near pig-stickings in the dictionary

  1. pig-rats
  2. pig-run
  3. pig-runs
  4. pig-sick
  5. pig-sticking
  6. pig-stickings
  7. pig-tail
  8. pig-tail splice
  9. pig-tail splices
  10. pig-tailed
  11. pig-tailed baboon

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