Word of the Day: PIG’S WHISPER

ETYMOLOGY
from pig + whisper

EXAMPLE (for n. 1.)
“… Frank.
Yes, sir; there are tailors, shoemakers, milliners, perfumers, dancing-masters, music masters and boxing masters.

Tickle.
I’ll be with them in a
pig’s whisper.

Frank.
Pig’s whisper! what a fellow for a gentleman’s tutor! O! he’s a shocking dog!
…”

From: Tony Lumpkin in town: A Farce
By John O’Keeffe, 1780

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