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Noun
pigsny or pigsnie

1. obsolete An Elizabethan term of endearment.

#* c1540: 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

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