piggish.html - {n.} A small bank, sometimes in the shape of a pig, for saving coins. * /John's father gave him a piggy bank./

piggish.html - {adj.} or {adv.} Sitting or being carried on the shoulders. * /Little John loved to go for a piggy-back ride on his father's shoulders./ * /When Mary sprained her ankle, John carried her piggy-back to the doctor./

piggish.html - n.
(pl. -ies)
1 a pig-breeding farm etc.
2 = PIGSTY.
3 piggishness.

piggish.html - n. & adj.
--n.

(also piggie) colloq.
1 a little pig.
2 a a child's word for a pig. b a child's word for a toe.
3 Brit. the game of tipcat.

--adj.

(piggier, piggiest)
1 like a pig.
2 (of features etc.) like those of a pig (little piggy eyes).

piggy bank a pig-shaped money box. piggy in the middle = pig in the middle.

piggish.html - n. & adv.
(also pickaback) --n.

a ride on the back and shoulders of another person.

--adv.

1 on the back and shoulders of another person.
2 on the back or top of a larger object. [16th c.: orig. unkn.]

piggish.html - {n. phr.} An unseen bargain; something accepted or bought without looking at it carefully. * /Buying land by mail is buying a pig in a poke: sometimes the land turns out to be under water./