Definition of Sucking pig

1. Noun. An unweaned piglet.

Generic synonyms: Piggy, Piglet, Shoat, Shote

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sucking Pig

suckest
sucket
sucketh
suckets
suckfish
suckfishes
suckhole
suckier
suckiest
suckin'
suckiness
sucking
sucking fish
sucking louse
sucking pig (current term)
sucking up
sucking urge
suckingly
suckings
suckle
suckled
suckler
sucklers
suckles
suckless
sucklest
suckleth
suckling
suckling pig

Literary usage of Sucking pig

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A New System of Domestic Cookery: Formed Upon Principles of Economy and by Maria Eliza Ketelby Rundell (1824)
"... To roast a sucking Pig. It will require from an hour to an hour and a half to roast. If you can get it when just killed, this is of great advantage. ..."

2. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1901)
"1 would not leave a head to wag upon a shoulder of our generation, from my moi tier's sucking-pig at her nipple to my great grandfather's ..."

3. Foods by Edward Smith (1873)
"PORK, sucking pig, BACON, AND WILD PIG. PORK. PORK is a food which was forbidden to the Jews (' and the swine although he divide the hoof and be cloven- ..."

4. Foods by Edward Smith (1873)
"PORK, sucking pig, BAC ON, AND WILD PIG. PORK. PORK is a food which was forbidden to the Jews (' and the swine although he divide the hoof and be cloven- ..."

5. Alexander III of Russia by Charles Lowe (1895)
"... the Madman— ; Alexander I.—Tale of a sucking-pig — Nicholas I.— ?j Instances of his despotism—Alexander II.—Character- £ sketch—"Sasha" the "Military ..."

6. Fifty Years in the Church of Rome by Charles Paschal Telesphore Chiniquy (1886)
"ING THE DOCTRINES OF MY CHURCH IN THEIR WRITINGS- PURGATORY AND THE sucking pig OF THE POOR MAN OF VARENNES. THE most desolate work of a sincere catholic ..."

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