To all you British types

[jedi_penguin]

Help! Partridge's Concise Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English has let me down. What is a "pigwidgeon"? This word showed up in an important context in a book that Sandy's reading for school and we can't figure it out. (If context helps, it's a YA novel set in Elizabethan England.)

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[ljs]

According to the OED, 'pigwidgeon' (n.) is a fairy, imp, or elf; the adjective means small or insignificant; the verb means to cheat someone.

[jedi_penguin]

capoeria_girl and I thank you!

Considering that the character who is named "pigwidgeon" is a helpless orphan who must lie, cheat and steal in order to get free of his oppressors, that definition actually adds a lot to the text. Thank you again!