pigg
English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
pigg (plural piggs)
- A piggin.
- 1818 July 25, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, Second Series, […] (The Heart of Mid-Lothian), volumes (please specify |volume=I, II, III, or IV), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Company, →OCLC:
- lying useless here in this auld pigg
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “pigg”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Norwegian Bokmål[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
pigg m (definite singular piggen, indefinite plural pigger, definite plural piggene)
Derived terms[edit]
References[edit]
- “pigg” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
pigg m (definite singular piggen, indefinite plural piggar, definite plural piggane)
Derived terms[edit]
References[edit]
- “pigg” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swedish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Adjective[edit]
pigg (comparative piggare, superlative piggast)
- alert, sharp (especially as opposed to drowsy)
- lively, spirited (especially despite old age)
- dapper, peppy
Declension[edit]
Inflection of pigg | |||
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Indefinite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 |
Common singular | pigg | piggare | piggast |
Neuter singular | piggt | piggare | piggast |
Plural | pigga | piggare | piggast |
Masculine plural3 | pigge | piggare | piggast |
Definite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
Masculine singular1 | pigge | piggare | piggaste |
All | pigga | piggare | piggaste |
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. 3) Dated or archaic |
Derived terms[edit]
- Musse Pigg (“Mickey Mouse”)
- pigga upp (“cheer up, stimulate”)
- pigg som en lärka
- pigg som en mört
- piggna till (“become alert”)
Etymology 2[edit]
From Old Swedish pigger, perhaps from Old Norse píkr (“nail, spike”). Cognate with Danish pig. Related also to Swedish pik and Old Norse pík.
Noun[edit]
pigg c
Declension[edit]
Declension of pigg | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | pigg | piggen | piggar | piggarna |
Genitive | piggs | piggens | piggars | piggarnas |
Further reading[edit]
- pigg in Svensk ordbok.
- pigg in Reverso Context (Swedish-English)
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