Definitions for piggin

piggin pig·gin

Spelling: [pig-in]
IPA: /ˈpɪg ɪn/

Piggin is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 29 anagrams from letters in piggin (ggiinp).

Definitions for piggin

noun

  1. Dialect. a small wooden pail or tub with a handle formed by continuing one of the staves above the rim.
  2. cream pail.

Origin of piggin

First recorded in 1545-55; perhaps akin to pig2

Examples for piggin

One of the Shaker women had sent a loaf of bread and a piggin half full of Shaker apple sauce to us.

He brought them water to the fence in a piggin, and with a wavering hand served it out in a gourd.

I told him the dingey was nearly swamped, and he reached me a piggin.

When she reached Lonesome Cove she found the piggin where she had hid it, and milked the cow in haste.

Every bowl, tray, warming-pan, and piggin has gone to the mines.

As she came up the slope with the piggin on her head, her husband was looking down from the porch with a lowering brow.

After churning, butter should be taken up in what is called "a piggin," first scalded and then filled with cold water.

She held the piggin with one arm encircled about it, and with the other hand she clutched the plaid shawl around her throat.

"A say if ever a piggin was in sore need o' a new link, 'tis that one," saith she.

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

Word Value for piggin
Scrable

10

Words with friends

14

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