Oink

Etymology
Imitative of the sound.

Interjection

 * 1) Representing the sound made by a pig.
 * 2) Drawing attention to male chauvinism (from the term male chauvinist pig).
 * 3) * 1982, Sandy Asher, Just like Jenny‎
 * Mom swallowed a spoonful of pudding and looked Daddy straight in the eye. "Oink, oink," she said, to let him know he was being a male chauvinist pig.
 * 1) * 2003, Robert N. Mansfield, Randy Maas, The Assassin: Attack on America
 * "The tub is too small!" "Then, I'll go first and you'll have to wait!" "Chauvinist pig!" "Oink, oink!"
 * 1) * 2005, Alinka Zyrmont, Forbidden Passion
 * You are such a male chauvinist oink, oink. You think that you are the only one who can drive a car or fly an airplane.

Translations

 * Danish:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: groin
 * Hungarian:
 * Japanese: ブー (bū)
 * Norwegian:


 * Russian: хрю (khrju)
 * Scottish Gaelic: gnosd
 * Serbian: грок
 * Swedish: nöff
 * Ukrainian: рох (rox)

Noun

 * 1) The sound made by a pig, or an imitation thereof.
 * The protesters replied to the police officers' demands with a chorus of oinks.

Synonyms

 * grunt

Translations

 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Hungarian: röfögés


 * Norwegian:
 * Serbian: гроктање, гроктај
 * Swedish: grymtning

Verb

 * 1)  Of a pig or in imitation thereof, to make its characteristic sound.
 * The hogs oinked happily in their pen as the farmer poured slop in their feeding trough.

Synonyms

 * grunt

Translations

 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Hungarian: röfög


 * Norwegian: grynte
 * Polish: kwiczeć
 * Russian: хрюкать (χrjúkat’)
 * Serbian: гроктати

Anagrams

 * ikon

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