# pigg
## English
### Alternative forms

* pig, pyg

### Etymology

Uncertain. Perhaps from pig (“swine”), due to the shape. Compare also Middle English pig (“a container for wine; the hide of a pig used as a wineskin”), from pigge (“pig”). More at pig.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pɪɡ/
* Homophone: pig

### Noun

pigg (plural piggs)
* (Northern England, Scotland) A piggin (“an earthenware vessel, jar, crock”).
** 1818 July 25, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, Second Series, […] (The Heart of Mid-Lothian), volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Company, →OCLC:lying useless here in this auld pigg
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing. (See the entry for “pigg”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From Old Norse pík f.

### Noun

pigg m (definite singular piggen, indefinite plural pigger, definite plural piggene)
* a spike
* a stud (e.g. on a studded tyre)
* a spine or quill (on an animal)
* a barb (on barbed wire)

#### Derived terms

* piggdekk
* piggrokke
* piggsvin
* piggtråd

### References

* “pigg” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From Old Norse pík f.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pɪɡː/

### Noun

pigg m (definite singular piggen, indefinite plural piggar, definite plural piggane)
* a spike
* a stud (e.g. on a studded tyre)
* a spine or quill (on an animal)
* a barb (on barbed wire)

#### Derived terms

* piggdekk
* piggsvin
* piggtråd

### References

* “pigg” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Swedish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pɪɡː/
* Audio (Gotland):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪɡ

### Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

#### Adjective

pigg (comparative piggare, superlative piggast)
* alert, fresh (often after sleeping, as opposed to drowsy)
    Jag är inte riktigt vaken än. Inte riktigt pigg.I haven't quite woken up yet. I'm not really alert.
    Jag är pigg och utviladI feel rested and refreshed [fresh and rested]
    Som flygledare är det viktigt att vara pigg och alert på jobbetAs an air traffic controller, it's important to be fresh and alert at work
    se pigg och fräsch utlook bright and fresh
** healthy
    Hon är inte riktigt pigg än, så hon är hemma från skolan idag ocksåShe's not quite recovered yet, so she's home from school today as well
    Jag känner mig lite piggare idagI'm feeling a bit better today
    Idag är Fido pigg igen, som ni serToday Fido is up and alert again, as you can see
    Drottningen är pigg och kry igen och höll ett tal vid ceremoninThe queen is back on her feet [fresh and well again] and gave a speech at the ceremony
** lively, active
    pigga små hundvalparlively little pups
    pigga pensionäreractive retirees
    pigga ögonbright eyes
    pigga färgerfresh colors (figurative)
*** spry
    en pigg 90-åringa spry 90-year-old
* (only used predicatively, with på) up for, keen on (wanting)
    Vi tänkte gå på bio. Är du pigg på att hänga med?We thought we'd go to the cinema. Are you up for joining us?
    Jag vet inte om jag är så pigg på detI don't know if I'm up for it

##### Usage notes

The contemporary intuition of native speakers is that the basic meaning of pigg is alert in the sense of not drowsy, lethargic, or the like. Other senses are intuitively by idiomatic implication – calling old people and pups "alert" in that sense instead of "spry" or "lively," etc.

##### Declension

$^1$ The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. $^2$ Dated or archaic. $^3$ Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.

##### Derived terms

* Musse Pigg (“Mickey Mouse”)
* morgonpigg
* pigga upp (“cheer up, stimulate”)
* pigg som en lärka
* pigg som en mört
* piggna till (“become alert”)

##### See also

* alert
* vaken

### Etymology 2

From Old Swedish pigger, perhaps from Old Norse píkr (“nail, spike”). Cognate with Danish pig. Related also to Swedish pik and Old Norse pík.

#### Noun

pigg c
* a (small) spike
* a spine, a thorn, a quill
    Synonym: (more common) tagg

##### Usage notes

* Sometimes used of pins on power plugs, pin headers, and the like, though stift is considered more proper.
* Also sometimes used of for example small teeth (tänder) on gears, "pins" on brushes (which might be called for example metallborst (metal bristles) instead), and studs on Lego bricks (officially pluppar). Might sometimes be a catchall when unable to think of a better term for a small spike or pin.

##### See also

* pinne

### References

* pigg in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* pigg in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* pigg in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)