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Pigg vs Piggin - What's the difference?

pigg | piggin | Synonyms |

Pigg is a synonym of piggin.


As nouns the difference between pigg and piggin

is that pigg is a piggin while piggin is (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.

pigg

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (medicine, biology)

    • Related terms

    * IgG * PIIgG * PIgG * UIgG * Ig * pIgM * pIgA

    piggin

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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 , .
    • At length a little negro girl appeared, walking straight as an arrow, with a piggin full of water on her head.

    Synonyms

    * pig, pigg