Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to pigstick
Participle: pigsticked
Gerund: pigsticking
Cognates
-
Indicative
Present
| I | pigstick |
| you | pigstick |
| he;she;it | pigsticks |
| we | pigstick |
| you | pigstick |
| they | pigstick |
Perfect
| I | have pigsticked |
| you | have pigsticked |
| he;she;it | has pigsticked |
| we | have pigsticked |
| you | have pigsticked |
| they | have pigsticked |
Past
| I | pigsticked |
| you | pigsticked |
| he;she;it | pigsticked |
| we | pigsticked |
| you | pigsticked |
| they | pigsticked |
Pluperfect
| I | had pigsticked |
| you | had pigsticked |
| he;she;it | had pigsticked |
| we | had pigsticked |
| you | had pigsticked |
| they | had pigsticked |
Future
| I | will pigstick |
| you | will pigstick |
| he;she;it | will pigstick |
| we | will pigstick |
| you | will pigstick |
| they | will pigstick |
Future Perfect
| I | will have pigsticked |
| you | will have pigsticked |
| he;she;it | will have pigsticked |
| we | will have pigsticked |
| you | will have pigsticked |
| they | will have pigsticked |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | pigstick |
| you | pigstick |
| he;she;it | pigstick |
| we | pigstick |
| you | pigstick |
| they | pigstick |
Perfect
| I | have pigsticked |
| you | have pigsticked |
| he;she;it | have pigsticked |
| we | have pigsticked |
| you | have pigsticked |
| they | have pigsticked |
Imperfect
| I | pigsticked |
| you | pigsticked |
| he;she;it | pigsticked |
| we | pigsticked |
| you | pigsticked |
| they | pigsticked |
Pluperfect
| I | had pigsticked |
| you | had pigsticked |
| he;she;it | had pigsticked |
| we | had pigsticked |
| you | had pigsticked |
| they | had pigsticked |
Conditional
Present
| I | would pigstick |
| you | would pigstick |
| he;she;it | would pigstick |
| we | would pigstick |
| you | would pigstick |
| they | would pigstick |
Perfect
| I | would have pigsticked |
| you | would have pigsticked |
| he;she;it | would have pigsticked |
| we | would have pigsticked |
| you | would have pigsticked |
| they | would have pigsticked |
Imperative
| you | pigstick |
| we | Let's pigstick |
| you | pigstick |
Verbs conjugated like 'pigstick'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'pigstick'
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to pierce or wound with a pointed tool or weapon
- chef, chib, ching, chive, enthrill, foin, gore, gride, jab, job, juke, kebab, knifecrime, pink, poach, run through, spear, speet, splash, stab, stick, stob, stog, thrust, yerk
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From pig + stick.
Sample Sentences
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But if he goes (I always looked things in the face) I suppose I'll get to the Front, too, and do me best to pigstick someone in baggy breeches that I never saw or heard of before […] [1894, Henry Lawson, Henry Lawson, the Master Story-teller: Prose Writings, page 883:]
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Sometimes I tried to pigstick him with a broken broom stick ... [1985, Joe Rosenblatt, Escape from the Glue Factory: A Memoir of a Paranormal Toronto:]
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Mother Gota gutted two and l pigstuck one when I walked in. [1997, Glen Cook, Bleak Seasons, page 276:]
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Unless you get pigstuck first. I got friends inside that owe me. [1997, Paula Detmer Riggs, Desperate Measures, page 207:]
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There were generally enough, however, to pigstick with, hunt jackals, or even wolves at times, and "lark" over the steeplechase course which he had constructed round the* four hundred acre indigo field that was close to the house. [1883, Matthew Horace Hayes, Indian Racing Reminiscences, page 154:]
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After the Kadir, three Officers stayed down on leave to pigstick at Meerut, but only one stuck it out to the end of the season, the attraction of Simla and polo at Dehra Dun claiming the other two respectively. [1911, The King's Royal Rifle Corps Chronicle, page 187:]
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Firstly, I know a subaltern in a British regiment who plays polo and pigsticks and occasionally shoots big game […] [1911, The Lancet, page 917:]
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They know how, or they would be severally and separately and many times dead, but they do not, they do not indeed, know that animals who stand on one hind leg and beckon with all the rest, or try to pigstick in harness, are not trap-horses worthy of endearing names, but things to be pole-axed. [1914, Rudyard Kipling, From Sea to Sea; Letters of Travel, volume 2, page 278:]