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Webster 1913 Edition
Pig-sticking
Pig′-stickˊing
,Noun.
Boar hunting; – so called by Anglo-Indians.
[Colloq.]
Tackeray.
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pig-sticking
pig-sticking
English
Noun
pig-sticking (plural pig-stickings)
- (colloquial, dated, India, Anglo-Indian) boar hunting
- 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair
- 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 […]
- 1945, Noël Coward, I Wonder What Happened to Him?
- 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?
- Have you heard any word
- 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair