Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
sowpig en · NOUN
Meanings
(Cornwall) A woodlouse.
The hatchling sowpigs (Cornwall) that leave the maternal pouch are tiny, soft and pale but soon harden up. 2024, Dominic Couzens, Gail Ashton, A Year of Garden Bees and Bugs:
[…] sowpigs, all of which were in small stone enclosures. Moving about among the animals were Little Men who were dressed like farmers, but whether they were farmers or not he could not tell. 2021, Enys Tregarthen, North Cornwall Fairies and Legends:
[…] he went in search of some sowpigs (woodlouse), and while doing this had the good fortune, in turning up a stone, to find the fly I had come after. 1896, The Fishing Gazette, page 461: