pig-sticking

pig-sticking

English

Noun

pig-sticking (plural pig-stickings)

1. (colloquial, dated, India, Anglo-Indian) boar hunting
   • 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

     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 […]

   • 1945, Noël Coward, I Wonder What Happened to Him?

     Have you heard any word
     Of that bloke in the "Third" -
     Was it Sotherby, Sedgewick or Sim?
     They had him chucked out of a club in Bombay.
     But apart from his mess bills exceeding his pay,
     He took to pig-sticking in quite the wrong way.
     I wonder what happened to him?