pigsny

English

Alternative forms

• pigsnie

Noun

pigsny (plural pigsnies)

1. (obsolete) An Elizabethan term of endearment.
   • c. 1540, Nicholas Udall, Ralph Roister Doister:

     To mine own dear coney bird, sweetheart and pigsny

References

• The Minor Elizabethan Drama, Pre-Shakespearean Comedies, Everyman's Library, 1910

Anagrams

• spying