Piggin vs Biggin - What's the difference?
piggin | biggin |
(dialect) A small pail, can or ladle with the handle on the side; a lading-can. In the colonial era, some buckets were made like a small barrel, but with one stave left extra long. This stave would be carved into a handle so the bucket could be used as an oversized scoop. It was used on farms for scattering grain for the chickens, slopping the hogs, as a one-handed milk bucket, and as a grain scoop.
* 1899 , .
(archaic) A child's cap; (figuratively ) childhood.
:* 1819': “my brain has been topsy-turvy, they say, ever since the '''biggin was bound first round my head; so turning me upside down may peradventure restore it again.” — Walter Scott, ''Ivanhoe
* Massinger
(historical) An official's hood or coif.
Coffee pot that has separate areas for heating the coffee and water.
A building; a bigging.
A coffee pot with a strainer or perforated metallic vessel for holding the ground coffee, through which boiling water is poured.
As nouns the difference between piggin and biggin
is that piggin is a small pail, can or ladle with the handle on the side; a lading-can. In the colonial era, some buckets were made like a small barrel, but with one stave left extra long. This stave would be carved into a handle so the bucket could be used as an oversized scoop. It was used on farms for scattering grain for the chickens, slopping the hogs, as a one-handed milk bucket, and as a grain scoop while biggin is a child's cap; (figuratively) childhood.piggin
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Noun
(en noun)- At length a little negro girl appeared, walking straight as an arrow, with a piggin full of water on her head.
Synonyms
* pig, piggbiggin
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Etymology 1
From French ''. Compare ''beguine .Noun
(en noun)- An old woman's biggin for a nightcap.
