pig-sticking

English

Noun

pig-sticking (countable and uncountable, plural pig-stickings)

1. (colloquial, dated, India, Anglo-Indian) The hunting of boars.
   • 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair:

     Swankey of the Body Guard himself, that dangerous youth, and the greatest buck of all the Indian army now on leave, was one day discovered by Major Dobbin tête-à-tête with Amelia, and describing the sport of pig-sticking to her with great humour and eloquence […]

   • 1945, Noël Coward, I Wonder What Happened to Him?:

     Have you heard any word
     Of that bloke in the "Third" -
     Was it Sotherby, Sedgewick or Sim?
     They had him chucked out of a club in Bombay.
     But apart from his mess bills exceeding his pay,
     He took to pig-sticking in quite the wrong way.
     I wonder what happened to him?