Pig

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. Any of various mammals of the family Suidae, having short legs, hooves with two weight-bearing toes, bristly hair, and a cartilaginous snout used for digging, including the domesticated hog (Sus scrofa subsp. domestica syn. S. domesticus) and wild species such as the bushpig.
  • noun. A domesticated hog, especially when weighing less than 54 kilograms (120 pounds).
  • noun. The edible parts of one of these mammals.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A person regarded as being piglike, greedy, or disgusting.
  • noun. A police officer.
  • noun. A member of the social or political establishment, especially one holding sexist or racist views.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A crude block of metal, chiefly iron or lead, poured from a smelting furnace.
  • noun. A mold in which such metal is cast.
  • noun. Pig iron.
  • intransitive verb. To give birth to pigs; farrow.
  • phrasal verb. To eat ravenously; gorge oneself.
  • idiom. (in a pig's eye) Under no condition; never.
  • idiom. (pig in a poke) Something that is offered in a manner that conceals its true nature or value.
  • idiom. (pig it) To live in a piglike fashion.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To bring forth pigs; bring forth in the manner of pigs; litter.
  • To act as pigs; live like a pig; live or huddle as pigs: sometimes with an indefinite it.
  • noun. An earthen vessel; any article of earthenware.
  • noun. A can for a chimney-top.
  • noun. A potsherd.
  • noun. Pig-iron collectively or any specified amount of iron pigs.
  • noun. In forestry, see rigging-sled.
  • noun. A hog; a swine; especially, a porker, or young swine of either sex, the old male being called boar, the old female sow.
  • noun. The flesh of swine; pork.
  • noun. An oblong mass of metal that has been run while still molten into a mold excavated in sand; specifically, iron from the blast-furnace run into molds excavated in sand.
  • noun. A customary unit of weight for lead, 301 pounds.
  • noun. A very short space of time.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A piggin.
  • verb. To bring forth (pigs); to bring forth in the manner of pigs; to farrow.
  • verb. To huddle or lie together like pigs, in one bed.
  • noun. The young of swine, male or female; also, any swine; a hog.
  • noun. Any wild species of the genus Sus and related genera.
  • noun. An oblong mass of cast iron, lead, or other metal. See Mine pig, under Mine.
  • noun. One who is hoggish; a greedy person.
  • noun. See under Masked.
  • noun. the bed of sand in which the iron from a smelting furnace is cast into pigs.
  • noun. cast iron in pigs, or oblong blocks or bars, as it comes from the smelting furnace. See Pig, 4.
  • noun. a nickname for a quadrant or sextant.
  • noun. a blind bargain; something bought or bargained for, without the quality or the value being known.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. earthenware, or an earthenware shard
  • noun. An earthenware hot-water jar to warm a bed; a stone bed warmer
  • noun. a pigeon.
  • noun. Any of several mammals of the genus Sus, having cloven hooves, bristles and a nose adapted for digging; especially the domesticated farm animal Sus scrofa.
  • noun. A young swine, a piglet.
  • noun. The edible meat of such an animal; pork.
  • noun. Someone who overeats or eats rapidly and noisily.
  • noun. A nasty or disgusting person.
  • noun. A dirty or slovenly person.
  • cross-reference
    Form
    pigged  pigging  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Whig  big  brig  dig  fig  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    bear  cat  cattle  chicken  deer  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    variant
    mine  pigg  pigged  pigging  
    verb-form
    pigged  pigging  pigs