pig

[pig]

Oink. A pig is a farm animal with a curly tail, hooves, floppy ears, and a flat snout for rooting. Cooked pig is popular, but the pig from Charlotte’s Web is saved from becoming bacon by a crafty spider.

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A piggin.

Noun
domestic swine

Noun
a crude block of metal (lead or iron) poured from a smelting furnace

Noun
mold consisting of a bed of sand in which pig iron is cast

Noun
uncomplimentary terms for a policeman

Noun
a person regarded as greedy and pig-like

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Noun
a coarse obnoxious person

Verb
give birth; "sows farrow"

Verb
eat greedily; "he devoured three sandwiches"

Verb
live like a pig, in squalor


n.
A piggin.

n.
The young of swine, male or female; also, any swine; a hog.

n.
Any wild species of the genus Sus and related genera.

n.
An oblong mass of cast iron, lead, or other metal. See Mine pig, under Mine.

n.
One who is hoggish; a greedy person.

v. t. & i.
To bring forth (pigs); to bring forth in the manner of pigs; to farrow.

v. t. & i.
To huddle or lie together like pigs, in one bed.


Pig

Pig , n. A piggin. [Written also pigg.]

Pig

Pig, n. [Cf. D. big, bigge, LG. bigge, also Dan. pige girl, Sw. piga, Icel. p'c6ka.] 1. The young of swine, male or female; also, any swine; a hog. "Two pigges in a poke." Chaucer. 2. (Zo'94l.) Any wild species of the genus Sus and related genera. 3. [Cf. Sow a channel for melted iron.] An oblong mass of cast iron, lead, or other metal. See Mine pig, under Mine. 4. One who is hoggish; a greedy person. [Low] Masked pig. (Zo'94l.) See under Masked. -- Pig bed (Founding), the bed of sand in which the iron from a smelting furnace is cast into pigs. -- Pig iron, cast iron in pigs, or oblong blocks or bars, as it comes from the smelting furnace. See Pig, 4. -- Pig yoke (Naut.), a nickname for a quadrant or sextant. -- A pig in a poke (that is, bag), a blind bargain; something bought or bargained for, without the quality or the value being known. [Colloq.]

Pig

Pig, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Pigged ; p. pr. & vb. n. Pigging .] 1. To bring forth (pigs); to bring forth in the manner of pigs; to farrow. 2. To huddle or lie together like pigs, in one bed.

A piggin.

The young of swine, male or female; also, any swine; a hog.

To bring forth (pigs); to bring forth in the manner of pigs; to farrow.

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Usage Examples

The best days I have are usually days where I'm out in the woods and something happens, like I see an amazing animal like a fox, or I get a glimpse of a wild pig or something that I never see. Or crazy things happen.

I would eat healthy at times and pig out at times. But I never had to go on a strict diet plan.

I do love Italian food. Any kind of pasta or pizza. My new pig out food is Indian food. I eat Indian food like three times a week. It's so good.

It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style.

I don't think it's a good advert for any restaurant, a fat chef, and secondly, who wants to eat a dessert when the chef's a fat pig.

Edible - good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.

Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

You can't have it both ways. You can't tell me that you're taxed enough already, and that you want constitutional government and then in the next breath say, 'Bring me home some bacon.' The pig has been picked clean.

Look, I hate to sound like Pollyanna, but I literally can't wait to get to work in the morning. I've got steady jobs, I've got my health, and I'm here in the greatest city in the world. I'd be a pig not to be grateful.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.

I took anatomy classes. I went to medical libraries and talked to doctors and nutritionists. I did the whole thing before using myself as a human guinea pig.

I am not a pig farmer. The pigs had a great time, but I didn't make any money.

I still, at hotel rooms, I do this one sort of not-so-cool thing: continually shoving my room service tray in front of someone else's door. Because I don't want the remnants. I don't want to be caught, like, being like the pig that I was at two in the morning.

My mother was an English teacher who decided to become a math teacher, and she used me as a guinea pig at home. My father had been a math teacher and then went to work at a steel mill because, frankly, he could make more money doing that.

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