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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

pig it en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (intransitive, slang) To live slovenly, in squalor.
    • "I've had ten years of it, scratching enough out of it to dress and feed myself when the going's good and sharing a room with a girl friend or pigging it in some cheap boarding-house, and doing a perish when I've been out of a job." 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 5:

Forms

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pigged it Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
pigged it Tense=Past lexicographic
pigs it Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
pigging it Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic