Word.ws English Dictionary

pigs it

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

Meaning of pig it

Verb

pig it (third-person singular simple present pigs it, present participle pigging it, simple past and past participle pigged it)

  1. (intransitive, slang) To live slovenly, in squalor.
    • "I've had ten years of it, scratching enough out of it to dress and feed myself when the going's good and sharing a room with a girl friend or pigging it in some cheap boarding-house, and doing a perish when I've been out of a job."1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 5

Questions about pigs it

What is pigs it the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Pigs it is the third-person singular simple present indicative of pig it.

Words near pigs it in the dictionary

  1. pigs in a blanket
  2. pigs in a poke
  3. pigs in blankets
  4. pigs in pokes
  5. pigs in the parlour
  6. pigs it
  7. pigs may fly
  8. pigs might fly
  9. pigs off
  10. pigs out
  11. pigs' trotters

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: pigs it (page history and authors); pig it (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “pigs it.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/pigs_it. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.