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This Little Piggy

18th century nursery rhyme
MusicRecording nursery_rhyme Q7786113
This Little Piggy
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Summary

This Little Piggy is a nursery rhyme[1]. It draws 4,074 Wikipedia views per month (nursery rhyme category, ranking #19 of 51).[2]

Key Facts

  • Commons category: This Little Piggy[3]
  • Language of work or name: English[4]
  • Country of origin: Kingdom of Great Britain[5]
  • Publication date: 1760[6]
  • Main subject: anthropomorphic pig[7], fingerplay[8]
  • Published in: The Famous Tommy Thumb’s Little Story‐book[9], St. Nicholas Magazine[10]
  • Copyright status: public domain[11]

Why It Matters

This Little Piggy is known by 9 alternative names across languages and contexts.[12]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [12] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 19w ago · Kiwigirl3850 · 2026-06-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Country of origin → Kingdom of Great Britain
    Freebase id → /m/06jh40
    Language of work or name → English
    Copyright status → public domain, public domain
    + 10 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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