Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

pig-sticking

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.77 in modern English

Syllables: pig--stick-ing
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The hunting of boars.

Indian usage; Colloquial; Countable; Dated; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Swankey of the Body Guard himself, that dangerous youth, and the greatest buck of all the Indian army now on leave, was one day discovered by Major Dobbin tête-à-tête with Amelia, and describing the sport of pig-sticking to her with great humour and eloquence […]"
"Have you heard any word Of that bloke in the "Third" - Was it Sotherby, Sedgewick or Sim? They had him chucked out of a club in Bombay. But apart from his mess bills exceeding his pay, He took to pig-sticking in quite the wrong way. I wonder what happened to him?"

Usage

Inflected Forms

pig-stickings (plural)

Questions

What does pig-sticking mean?: The hunting of boars.

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