pigmann.1
/ˈpɪɡmən/, U.S. /ˈpɪɡmən/, /ˈpɪɡˌmæn/ A man employed to look after pigs; a pig farmer.
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1190 in Publ. Pipe Roll Soc. (1925) I. 126 Jordanus Pigman.
1792 J. Simco Catal. Bks. 4 The Poor Blind Pig Man.
1825 Proc. Old Bailey 15 Jan. 116/2 I..saw the prisoner in the kitchen—he said, if I came with any pigman he would knock my head off.
1898 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 666/1 The pigman..had caught the five piglings.
1928 Times 21 Sept. 12/2 If it isn't the sow, it's the pigman.
1971 Farmers Weekly 19 Mar. 75/3 Continental pigmen want hybrid boars.
2003 Scotsman (Nexis) 6 Aug. 16 He was not impressed by that, any more than he was by suggestions for Jeyes' Fluid, creosote..or a pair of pigman's wellingtons.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
pigmann.2
/ˈpɪɡmən/, U.S. /ˈpɪɡmən/, /ˈpɪɡˌmæn/, Scottish English /ˈpɪɡmən/ Scottish. Now rare.
A man who deals in crockery (cf. pig n.2).
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society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of dishes or pots
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1681 S. Colvil Mock Poem ii. 24 Wallace, Who in a Pig-mans Weed, at Bigger, Espied all the English Leagure.
1808 Atholl MSS in Sc. National Dict. (1968) VII. 116/2 Alexander Carr Piggman in Dunkeld.
1926 I. Farquhar Pickletillie 156 I heard something aboot a tailor comin' to the shop where Macgregor, the pigman, was for a while.
1950 ‘O. Douglas’ Farewell to Priorsford 141 The ‘pigman’..gave ‘pigs’ or dishes in exchange for old clothes.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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