pigging
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpɪɡɪŋ/
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- Rhymes: -ɪɡɪŋ
Adjective
pigging
- Damned (used as a mild intensive).
- I can't get this pigging computer to work.
Synonyms
- blasted, blooming, confounded, damned
Verb
pigging
- present participle of pig
Noun
pigging (plural piggings)
- (engineering) The use of a pig (the device) to clean a pipeline.
- 1955, American Gas Association, Proceedings (volume 37, page 1083)
- The main reason for the high efficiencies obtained over previous piggings can be attributed to the vented swabs with the check valve.
- 1955, American Gas Association, Proceedings (volume 37, page 1083)
Noun
pigging (plural piggings)
- Alternative form of piggin
- 1823, Charles Lamb, Essays of Elia
- He had his tea and hot rolls in a morning, while we were battening upon our quarter-of-a-penny loaf — our crug — moistened with attenuated small beer, in wooden piggings, smacking of the pitched leathern jack it was poured from.
- 1823, Charles Lamb, Essays of Elia