Chapter Pig to Pigsney of P by Brewer's Phrase & Fable

Piggy-wiggy or Piggy-whidden. A word of endearment; a pet pig, which, being the smallest of the litter, is called by the diminutive Piggy, the wiggy being merely alliterative.

Pightel or Pightle. A small parcel of land enclosed with a hedge. In the eastern counties called a pikle.

“Never had that novelty in manure whitened the ... pightels of Court Farm.”- Miss Mitford: Our Village, p. 68.

Pigmy A dwarf. In fabulous history the pigmies were a nation of dwarfs devoured by cranes. (See Pygmies .)

Pigsney or Pigsnie. A word of endearment to a girl. (Diminutive of the Anglo-Saxon piga, a little girl.)