Swingling vs Swineling - What's the difference?
swingling | swineling |
A small, young, or immature swine; pigling.
*1848 , Charles Whitehead, Smiles and tears, or The romance of life - Volume 1 - Page 83 :
*1980 , Randy Kidd, http://www.motherearthnews.com/sustainable-farming/how-to-breed-pigs-zmaz80jazraw.aspx?page=3#axzz2KdORSpS4:
As a verb swingling
is .As a noun swineling is
a small, young, or immature swine; pigling.swineling
English
Noun
(en noun)- He did so, filling his pipe and paying for a second tankard, which now came in, gazing amiably the while upon the interesting swineling , behind which, on the bench by my side, he presently conveyed himself.
- Most pig raisers will want to remove the tips of their piglets' eight needle teeth on the same day the "swinelings " receive the iron supplements.