swineling
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
swineling (plural swinelings)
- A small, young, or immature swine; pigling.
- 1848, Charles Whitehead, Smiles and tears, or The romance of life - Volume 1 - Page 83:
- 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.
- 1980, Randy Kidd, http://www.motherearthnews.com/sustainable-farming/how-to-breed-pigs-zmaz80jazraw.aspx?page=3#axzz2KdORSpS4:
- 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.