Pig

Noun



 * 1) 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.
 * The farmer kept a pen with two pigs that he fed from table scraps and field waste.
 * 1) (specifically) A young swine, a piglet.
 * 2)  The edible meat of such an animal; pork.
 * Some religions prohibit their adherents from eating pig.
 * 1) Someone who overeats or eats rapidly and noisily.
 * You gluttonous pig! Now that you've eaten all the cupcakes, there will be none for the party!
 * 1) A nasty or disgusting person.
 * She considered him a pig as he invariably stared at her bosom when they talked.
 * 1) A dirty or slovenly person.
 * He was a pig and his apartment a pigpen; take-away containers and pizza boxes in a long, moldy stream lined his counter tops.
 * 1)  A police officer.
 * The protester shouted, “Don't give in to the pigs!” as he was arrested.
 * 1)  A difficult problem.
 * Hrm...this one's a real pig: I've been banging my head against the wall over it for hours!
 * 1)  A block of cast metal.
 * The conveyor carried the pigs from the smelter to the freight cars.
 * After the ill-advised trade, the investor was stuck with worthless options for 10,000 tons of iron pig.
 * 1) The mold in which a block of metal is cast.
 * The pig was cracked, and molten metal was oozing from the side.
 * 1)  A device for cleaning or inspecting the inside of an oil or gas pipeline, or for separating different substances within the pipeline. Named for the pig-like squealing noise made by their progress.
 * Unfortunately, the pig sent to clear the obstruction got lodged in a tight bend, adding to the problem.
 * 1)  a person who is obese to the extent of resembling such a mammal of the genus Sus.
 * 2)  a pigeon.

Verb

 * 1)  to give birth.
 * The black sow pigged at seven this morning.
 * 1)  To greedily consume (especially food).
 * ''They were pigging on the free food at the bar.
 * 1) * 2009, Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice, Vintage 2010, p. 349:
 * "Wow, Doc. That's heavy." Denis sat there pigging on the joint as usual.

Adjectives for Pig
gaping; fastidious; enormous; impious; cadaverous; good-natured; kicking.

Verbs for Pig
auction—; exhibit—; fatten—; graze— market—; pen—; slaughter—; stable— tend—; trough—; —gobbles up; —grunts —hobbles out; —snorts; —squeals; — stumbles; —swarms; —wallows; apply—; approve—; combine—; deposit—; employ—; infuse—; insert—; mix—with; secrete—; —blends; —colors; —constitutes; —enhances; —harmonizes; —imbues; — tinges; —tints.

Thesaurus
Angora goat, Arctic fox, Belgian hare, Caffre cat, Dogberry, Indian buffalo, John Law, Kodiak bear, Virginia deer, aardvark, aardwolf, alpaca, animal, anteater, antelope, antelope chipmunk, aoudad, apar, armadillo, ass, aurochs, bacon, badger, bandicoot, barrow, bassarisk, bat, bear, beast, beaver, belly-god, bettong, bicycle, bigot, bike, binturong, bison, black bear, black buck, black cat, black fox, black sheep, blue fox, bluecoat, boar, bobby, bobcat, brown bear, brush deer, brush wolf, buffalo, buffalo wolf, bull, bullion, burro, burro deer, butt, button, cachalot, camel, camelopard, capybara, carabao, caribou, carpincho, cast, casting, cat, cat-a-mountain, catamount, cattalo, cavy, chamois, chauvinist, cheetah, chevrotain, chinchilla, chipmunk, chitterlings, chopper, cinnamon bear, cochon de lait, coon, coon cat, cop, copper, cormorant, cotton mouse, cotton rat, cougar, cow, coyote, coypu, cracklings, cur, cycle, cyprian, deer, deer tiger, dick, dingo, doctrinaire, dog, dogmatist, donkey, dormouse, drab, dromedary, echidna, eland, elephant, elk, ermine, eyra, fallow deer, fanatic, fat back, ferret, field mouse, fisher, fitch, flatfoot, flattie, flitch, flying phalanger, foumart, fox, fox squirrel, frump, fuzz, gammon, gate, gazelle, gemsbok, gendarme, genet, gilt, giraffe, glutton, gnu, gnu goat, goat, goat antelope, gopher, gorger, gormand, gormandizer, gourmand, gourmandizer, greedy eater, greedygut, greedyguts, grizzly bear, ground squirrel, groundhog, guanaco, guinea pig, gumshoe, guttler, ham, ham steak, hamster, hare, harnessed antelope, hartebeest, haslet, headcheese, heat, hedgehog, hippopotamus, hog, horse, hound, husky eater, hussy, hyena, hyrax, ibex, illiberal, ingot, insect, intolerant, iron, jackal, jackass, jackrabbit, jade, jaguar, jaguarundi, jambon, jambonneau, jerboa, jerboa kangaroo, jezebel, jingo, kaama, kangaroo, kangaroo mouse, kangaroo rat, karakul, kinkajou, kit fox, koala, lapin, lard, lemming, leopard, leopard cat, lion, litterbug, llama, lynx, male chauvinist, mammoth, man, mara, marmot, marten, mastodon, meerkat, minibike, mink, mole, mongoose, mongrel, moose, motocycle, motorbike, motorcycle, mouflon, mountain goat, mountain lion, mountain sheep, mouse, mule, mule deer, muntjac, musk deer, musk hog, musk-ox, muskrat, musquash, nab, nilgai, nutria, ocelot, okapi, onager, oont, opossum, otter, ounce, ox, pack rat, paddy, painter, panda, pangolin, panther, peccary, pedicab, peeler, peludo, phalanger, picnic ham, pieds de cochon, piggy, piglet, pigling, pine mouse, platypus, pocket gopher, pocket mouse, pocket rat, polar bear, polar fox, polecat, porcupine, pork, porker, porkpie, possum, pouched rat, poyou, prairie dog, prairie wolf, pronghorn, puma, rabbit, raccoon, racist, rat, razorback, red deer, red squirrel, regulus, reindeer, reptile, rhinoceros, road-bike, roe, roe deer, roebuck, sable, salt pork, schlep, schlump, serpent, serval, sexist, shamus, sheep, sheet metal, shoat, shrew, shrew mole, side of bacon, sika, silver fox, skunk, slattern, slob, sloppy Joe, sloth, sloven, slut, small ham, snake, snowshoe rabbit, sow, sowbelly, springbok, squirrel, stoat, strumpet, suckling pig, superpatriot, suslik, swamp rabbit, swine, takin, tamandua, tamarin, tapir, tarpan, tatou, tatou peba, tatouay, the cops, the fuzz, the law, tiger, tiger cat, timber wolf, trail bike, tramp, tree shrew, trencherman, trencherwoman, tricycle, trike, trollop, trotters, trull, tusker, ultranationalist, urus, varmint, vermin, viper, vole, wallaby, warthog, water buffalo, waterbuck, weasel, wharf rat, wheel, whelp, whistler, white fox, wild ass, wild boar, wild goat, wild ox, wildcat, wildebeest, wolf, wolverine, wombat, wood rat, woodchuck, woolly mammoth, worm, yak, zebra, zebu, zoril

Etymology
pigge:, from undefined: (attested only in compounds, such as picgbread:), pet-form related to  Pugge:. Of uncertain origin.

Noun

 * Afrikaans: vark
 * Albanian: ,
 * Amuzgo: kítzku
 * Anglo-Norman: ,
 * Arabic: خنزير, حلوف
 * Moroccan Arabic:
 * Aramaic:
 * Syriac: ܚܙܝܪܐ (ħzīrā’), ܚܙܝܪܬܐ (ħzīrtā’)
 * Aramaic: חזירא (ħzīrā’), חזירתא (ħzīrtā’)
 * Armenian:
 * Azeri:
 * Basque: urde, zerri, txerri
 * Belarusian: свіння
 * Bosnian:
 * Breton: pemoc’h moc'h
 * Bulgarian:
 * Campidanese Sardinian: procu, mannali , sue
 * Catalan: porc, truja
 * Cebuano: baboy
 * Chamicuro:
 * Chamorro: babui
 * Cherokee: ᏏᏆ (siqua)
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 豬, 猪
 * Comox:
 * Cornish: ,
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Erzya: туво (tuvo)
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:, põrsakest
 * Faroese:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Old French: ,
 * Friulian: purcit
 * Galician: porco
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Hawaiian:
 * Hebrew: חזיר
 * Hindi: सूअर
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido: porko
 * Ilocano: baboy
 * Indonesian: babi
 * Acehnese:
 * Buginese: bawi
 * Kaili: vavu
 * Mandar: boe
 * Interlingua: porco
 * Irish:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 豚
 * Karelian: počči
 * Korean: 돼지
 * Kurdish:
 * Ladin: porcel
 * Latin: sus, porcus


 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian: kiaulė
 * Lower Sorbian: swinja
 * Macedonian: свиња (svinja)
 * Malay: ,
 * Malayalam: പന്നി (panni)
 * Maltese: ħanżir
 * Maléku Jaíka:
 * Maori:
 * Nahuatl:
 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian: ,
 * Occitan: pòrc
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Persian: خوک
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romani: balo, bali
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: portg, piertg, püerch, chucal
 * Russian:
 * Sami: spiidni
 * Samoan: pua'a
 * Scottish Gaelic: muc
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: свиња
 * Roman: svinja
 * Slovak: prasa
 * Slovene: svinja, prašič, pujs
 * Spanish: cerdo, chancho, chon  , coche  , cochi  , cochín  , cochino  , cocho  , cuchi  , cuto  , gocho  , gorrino , guarro  , marrano  , puerco  , tocino  , tunco
 * Swahili: ,
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog: baboy
 * Taos: kùci’ína
 * Telugu: పంది (paMdi)
 * Thai: หมู
 * Tok Pisin: pik
 * Tongan:
 * Tswana: (9/10)
 * Turkish:, hınzır
 * Ukrainian:
 * Upper Sorbian: swinjo
 * Urdu: خوک, خنزیر, سور
 * Uyghur: چوشقا
 * Veps: siga
 * Vietnamese: chi lợn
 * Volapük: svin,  hisvin,  jisvin,  omsvin
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian: baarch


 * Afrikaans: vark
 * Armenian: ,
 * Dutch:, , slokop
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * Greek:
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 * Irish: alpuire
 * Italian: ,
 * Macedonian:
 * Norwegian: storeter
 * Swahili:
 * Turkish: obur
 * Welsh:


 * Afrikaans: vark
 * Armenian:
 * Bosnian:
 * Dutch:, smeerlap
 * Finnish:
 * French:, ,
 * German:
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 * Latvian:
 * Macedonian:
 * Russian: свинья (svin’já)
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: свиња
 * Roman: svinja
 * Slovene: svinja, prasec
 * Swahili:
 * Turkish: tiksindirici
 * Welsh:


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 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * German:
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 * Italian: ,
 * Latvian:


 * Macedonian:
 * Russian: свинья (svin’já), свинтус (svítus)
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: свиња
 * Roman: svinja
 * Slovene:
 * Swahili:
 * Turkish: pasaklı
 * Welsh:


 * Basque:
 * Dutch:
 * French: flic, keuf
 * German:
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 * Icelandic: löggusvín
 * Norwegian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Spanish: milico
 * Swahili:


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 * : porcu, mannale , sue


 * : porcu, mannale , sue

Derived terms

 * blind pig
 * bush pig
 * dish pig
 * eat like a pig
 * flying pig
 * guinea pig
 * happy as a pig in shit
 * if pigs had wings
 * in a pig's eye
 * pig bed
 * pigface
 * piggery
 * piggish


 * piggy
 * piggy bank
 * piggyback
 * pigheaded
 * pig in a blanket
 * pig in a poke
 * pig iron
 * pig it
 * pig Latin
 * pig lead
 * piglet


 * pig-out
 * pig out
 * pigpen
 * pigskin
 * pigsty
 * pigtail
 * pigweed
 * potbellied pig
 * sweat like a pig
 * when pigs fly
 * whistle pig
 * year of the pig

Noun

 * 1) spike
 * 2) barb
 * 3) spine (needle-like structure)
 * 4) quill (needle-like structure)
 * 5) prickle (a small, sharp pointed object, such as a thorn)

Etymology
From pík:.

Noun

 * 1) pig
 * 2) pot, jar, earthenware

Noun

 * 1) pig

Etymology
From pig:.

Synonyms

 * pwaka