pigging

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪɡɪŋ

Etymology 1

Adjective

pigging

1. Damned (used as a mild intensive).

   I can't get this pigging computer to work.

Synonyms

• blasted, blooming, confounded, damned

Verb

pigging

1. present participle of pig

Noun

pigging (plural piggings)

1. (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.

Etymology 2

Noun

pigging (plural piggings)

1. Alternative form of piggin
   • (Can we date this quote?), 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.