ˈsucking-pig
A new-born or very young pig; a young milk-fed pig suitable for roasting whole. (Formerly often called roasting pig.)
| 1566 Withals Dict. 17 Yonge suckyng pigges, porci delici. 1606 Shuttleworths' Acc. (Chetham Soc.) 166 For one souckinge pigge, ijs viij{supd}. 1632 Massinger City Madam ii. i, There were three sucking pigs served up in a dish. c 1746 J. Collier (Tim Bobbin) View Lanc. Dial. Wks. (1862) p. xxxvii, I know no moor on um neaw, than a seawking-pig. 1834 Marryat P. Simple (1863) 198 A roast sucking pig came on as a second course. 1846 Youatt Pig (1847) 130 Those intended to be killed for ‘sucking-pigs’ should not be above four weeks old. 1886 W. J. Tucker E. Europe 73 ‘You like sucking-pig?’ he asked. ‘Not particularly.’ ‘Ah! you never ate them as they ought to be eaten!’ |