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語源 1

形容詞

pigging

1. Damned (used as a mild intensive).

   I can't get this pigging computer to work.

同意語

• blasted, blooming, confounded, damned

動詞

pigging

1. present participle and gerund of pig

名詞

pigging (plural piggings)

1. (engineering) The use of a pig (the device) to clean a pipeline.
   • 1955, American Gas Association, Proceedings, volume 37, page 1083:

     The main reason for the high efficiencies obtained over previous piggings can be attributed to the vented swabs with the check valve.

語源 2

名詞

pigging (plural piggings)

1. Alternative form of piggin.
   • 1823, Charles Lamb, Essays of Elia:

     He had his tea and hot rolls in a morning, while we were battening upon our quarter-of-a-penny loaf — our crug — moistened with attenuated small beer, in wooden piggings, smacking of the pitched leathern jack it was poured from.