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Sucking pig   /sˈəkɪŋ pɪg/   Listen
Sucking pig

noun
1.
An unweaned piglet.






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"Sucking pig" Quotes from Famous Books



... time, and one day sat down sixteen to dinner in the mission-house, some of the officers having come up to spend the day. It is difficult to improvise a dinner in a country where no joints of meat are to be had, unless you kill an ox for the purpose. Sheep there are none. A capon or goose, or a sucking pig, are the only big dishes, and not always to be had. However, we did very well, and our visitors were delighted with Sarawak, and with the schoolboys' singing; for I had them up to sing glees and rounds, and "Rule Britannia," after dinner. Captain Corbett ...
— Sketches of Our Life at Sarawak • Harriette McDougall



Words linked to "Sucking pig" :   piggy, shoat, shote, piglet



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