Sc. [Cf. WREGLING, WRECKLING.] The smallest or weakest of a litter, brood or family.
1805. G. McIndoe, Poems, 67. Tho’ [I am] the wrig In a’ the nest there’s nane sae big, Excepting Jock.
1844. Stephens, Bk. Farm, II. 700. The small weak pigs are usually nicknamed wrigs, or pock-shakings.
1899. J. Colville, Scott. Vernacular, 15. The wee wrig, or puis-né member of the litter [of pigs]
