piglessadj.adv.
/ˈpɪɡlᵻs/, U.S. /ˈpɪɡləs/ Without a pig or pigs; having no pigs. Also as adv.
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1838 Times 23 May 4/6 A cropless potato ground, a pigless habitation.
1895 Daily News 28 June 2/4 The National Pig Breeders met at a pigless show for the second time.
1912 Newark (Ohio) Advocate 11 Nov. 7/6 The pigless folk of St James..hear from him often until they annex a few ‘porkers’ as a side line.
1972 M. Brown Politics of Irish Lit. (1973) i. ii. 25 About one-fourth of the Irish population [were] landless, cowless, pigless agricultural laborers.
2002 Chicago Tribune (Nexis) 19 May 14 c So now they're in St. Louis pigless, on a Friday night before the Saturday promotion.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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