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Feb. 14, 2015

pigsney \PIGZ-nee\ noun 1. Obsolete. a darling. 2. Obsolete. an eye. Quotes Why didst thou not take me away before her, seeing for me to live, without her, is but to languish? Ah! Badebec, Badebec, my minion, my dear heart, my pigsney, my duck, my honey, my little coney… -- François Rabelais, The Works of Francis Rabelais, translated by Thomas Urquhart, 1653 Origin Pigsney comes from the Middle English term piggesnye meaning literally "pig's eye." The term entered English in the mid-1300s.

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