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.]

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  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?

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