Meanings of suck pigs in English

Sucking pigs should be small, and are best when about three weeks old.

They were all die, you gravy- sucking pigs, or something like that.

Turkeys for Thanksgiving, sucking pigs for Christmas, chickens for Easter, goose, she couldn't abide.

Then he went out to the sties, killed two sucking pigs, and roasted them daintily.

He will eat flesh, poultry, and sucking pigs, and is also very destructive to Indian corn.

And sows of sucking pigs are chous'd:

Such like as capres, asparagus, sucking pigs, squabs, and other animals eaten only when they are young.

Sucking pigs and sucking pigs daily.

From these pens sallied forth, now and then, troops of sucking pigs, as if to snuff the air.

It was at that time one of the greatest delicacies, served up garnished all round with sucking pigs, gilded and silvered.

He went to the swine-pens and brought out two sucking pigs; he slaughtered them and cut them small and roasted the meat.

I was told by a gentleman of the first respectability in Derry, that sucking pigs are sold in that market for thirty shillings.

The miller, from forethought to have young at that time, made profit by his sucking pigs that were sold for the mid-winter feast.

Occasionally there was a man with a whole litter of sucking pigs frozen solid and slung over his shoulder or festooned into a necklace.

According to the census of the United States for 1870, [Footnote: In the enumeration of farm stock, " sucking pigs, spring lambs, and calves," are omitted.