1625 F. Bacon Apophthegmes §278.304 Is the piggy serued?

1672 H. Herbert Narr. in Camden Misc. (1990) XXX. 342 The French have cast lotts upon his Temporall Vesture and made him a spirituall Ashe of Verdun or as a little piggi in England.

1736 Piggy in Beeriad 71 The Captains Pigs that hitherto lay hush, Rouz'd, and bespatter'd Piggy all with Slush.

1799 in Spirit of Public Jrnls. (1800) 3 25 Go to the forest, piggy, and deplore The miserable lot of savage swine.

1841 Times 5 Oct. 7/5 The owner of a pig..shutting the door to prevent piggy's egress, whipped the poor animal until it squeaked for mercy.

1890 Spectator 10 May 655/1 If the worm objected to come out of the hole, ‘piggy’ [sc. a hedgehog], with his head on one side, gently scratched away the grass with his right fore-paw and extracted him.

1927 W. S. Churchill Let. 30 Oct. in W. S. Churchill & C. S. Churchill Speaking for Themselves (1999) xiii. 316 The remaining new sow has had seven piggies.

1993 J. Saunders Absolutely Fabulous ii. 42 Shouldn't eat so much, little piggy.

1862 C. C. Robinson Dial. Leeds & Neighbourhood 384 Piggy, a game played by boys with sticks, and a piece of rounded wood, pointed at each end, called the ‘piggy’, which, when struck at either end, rebounds, similar to the game of ‘cat’ elsewhere.

1884 Manch. Guardian 22 Sept. 8/4 ‘Piggy’ (which some members..recognise under the name of ‘tip-cat’) [was] among the features he described as objectionable in our street life.

1909 Westm. Gaz. 10 May 12/1 About 300 spectators attended the Barnsley Queen's Grounds..on the occasion of a long knock piggy match for £50 and the championship of Yorkshire.

1999 Sentinel (Stoke-on-Trent) (Nexis) 18 Nov. 59 Another outdoor pastime was the game of Tip Cat, which had many variants and names, depending on the region... In Yorkshire and Lancashire, it was Piggy or Nipsey.

1908 R. W. Gilder Poems 127 Quick as you can think Twenty small toes In four pretty rows, Like little piggies pink, All kick in the air.]

1978 Washington Post 29 May c5/2 We think Miller is in the same condition as last year, when he was the alleged front runner, but he never got the piggies over the doorsill.

1989 Sunday Express Mag. 12 Nov. 16/1 When she opens the door barefoot..prepared to face the press with her piggies on show, presumably it's okay for the rest of us, too.

1998 Rock & Ice Sept. 51 (advt.) Snug in the heel. Precise over the instep. A little wider across your piggies.

1932 L. Golding Magnolia St. i. ix. 159 The little Jewboys..started playing ball or piggy-and-stick.

1711 in Ulster Jrnl. Archæol. (1898) 4 117 Pour it on a clean piggie or plate, then scum it, and boill it for your use.

1727 Song: Country Lass in A. Ramsay New Misc. Sc. Song 180 My Paisly Piggy, cork'd with Sage, Contains my Drink but thin—O.

1894 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words 535 A traveller reported that in Northumberland the people slept with the pigs for warmth. He had been asked if he would have a piggy in his bed.

1958 Banffshire Jrnl. 1 Apr. Hooever, as the sayin' is — ‘the piggy gangs tae the wall till ae day’, an' that day cam' tae Wullie at the lang last.

1987 F. Graham New Geordie Dict. 36 Pig piggy, an earthenware hot water bottle.]

1839 T. Hood Hood's Own 380 Miss Ikey, Whose whole pronunciation was so piggy.

1874 F. C. Burnand My Time xxii. 198 He was fresh-coloured, with little piggy eyes.

1897 C. Lee Widow Woman 165 Thou peggy varmen!

1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang 279 Avaricious; Greedy, Grabby, a hog for,..on the make, piggy.

1957 ‘N. Shute’ On Beach viii. 264 ‘Getting a bit piggy, isn't it?’.. ‘Everything shut up, and dirty, and stinking.’

1995 Maxim July 117/1 This is a rich dish so don't get all piggy and make yourself queasy.

1963 D. Stanford Muriel Spark 45 At first, her pupils are impressed..—none more than piggy-eyed little Sandy.

1974 Greece & Rome 21 157 The Caecilii evidently abandoned their piggy-eyed ancestor Caeculus in favour of Caecas, a comrade of Aeneas.

1997 Cosmopolitan (U.K. ed.) May 75/2 I had two vodkas last night... Two is my absolute limit, so now I'm piggy-eyed and puffy.

2003 Times (Nexis) 8 Nov. (Features section) 10 Being very shortsighted indeed, my glasses rendered me piggy-eyed.