or pigwiggin or piggy-whidden, subs. phr. (familiar).A pet pig: hence, a comic endearment (see DRAYTON, Nymphidia, where it is used as the name of a kind of Puck). [From PIGGY = a diminutive + WHIDDY = white.]
1678. COTTON, Burlesque upon Burlesque: or, The Scoffer Scofft [Works (1725), 197].
Vulc. What such a nazardly PIGWIGGEN, | |
A little Hang-strings in a Biggin? |