(Ireland, UK) An allegory for a backward rural society.
(Ireland, UK) An allegory for a backward rural society.
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A Yorkshire idiom describing someone who is severely bow-legged — their legs so curved that even a pig could pass between them unchecked. Typically deployed in good-natured ribbing, it reflects the British tradition of mocking physical traits with elaborately specific rural imagery. The phrase is largely obsolete outside older Yorkshire dialect speakers; in active use it would function as a teasing put-down with a comedic country flavour.
(Scotland) Enough to fill a pig .
(UK, childish, or, endearing) A pig.
(Yorkshire, idiomatic) To be bow-legged.
(chiefly, British, humorous) minimum trappings of the minor landed gentry.