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Definition of Pig it
1. Verb. Live like a pig, in squalor.
Definition of Pig it
1. Verb. (intransitive) To live slovenly, in squalor. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pig It
Literary usage of Pig it
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1872)
"Generally considered as put for pitched, either as the participle, or the preterite
tense of to pitch ; but there was certainly an old verb, to pig/it. ..."
2. Genetic Studies on a Cavy Species Cross by John Adolph Detlefsen (1914)
"Comparing the average of the \ wild males with their male parent, the guinea-pig,
it was found that there was a general tendency for the hybrids to be ..."
3. Genetic Studies on a Cavy Species Cross by John Adolph Detlefsen (1914)
"Comparing the average of the \ wild males with their male parent, the guinea-pig,
it was found that there was a general tendency for the hybrids to be ..."
4. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1902)
"The working man here is content to PIG it, to use an old-country term, in a way
that an English workman would not care to do. 1860. ..."
5. The Popular Science Monthly (1884)
"After its strength has been thus diminished, if the virus is then transferred to
a dog, a rabbit, or a Guinea-pig, it still remains attenuated. ..."
6. The Cupola Furnace: A Practical Treatise on the Construction and Management by Edward Kirk (1903)
"When the scrap is heavier than the pig it should be placed upon the bed and fuel
... If the scrap is as heavy as the pig, it should be mixed with the pig. ..."
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