Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A darling.
  • noun An eye.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A pig's eye: used, like eye and apple of the eye, to denote something especially cherished; hence, as a term of endearment used of or to a woman, a darling.
  • noun An eye: applied to a woman's eye.
  • noun The carnation pink.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete A word of endearment for a girl or woman.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English piggesnye : pigges, genitive of pigge, pig; see pig + nye (from an eye, an eye; see eye).]

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