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pig
(pɪg)
Word forms: plural, 3rd person singular presenttense pigs, present participle pigging, past tense, past participle pigged
1. countable noun
A pig is a pink or black animal with short legs and not much hair on its skin. Pigs are often kept on farms for their meat, which is called pork, ham, bacon, or gammon.
...the grunting of the pigs.
...a pig farmer.
2. See also guinea pig
3. countable noun
If you call someone a pig, you think that they are unpleasant in some way, especially that they are greedy or unkind.
[informal, disapproval] 4. singular noun [a NOUN, usually NOUN of noun]
If you say that something is, for example, a pig of a job, you mean it is very difficult.
[British, informal] It's been a pig of a week.
5. verb
If you say that people are pigging themselves, you are criticizing them for eating a very large amount at one meal.
[British, informal, disapproval] After pigging herself on ice cream she went upstairs. [VERB pronoun-reflexive]
6.
See to make a pig's ear of
7.
See pigs might fly
8.
See make a pig of oneself
Phrasal verbs:
See pig out
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pig in British English
(pɪɡ)
noun
1.
any artiodactyl mammal of the African and Eurasian family Suidae, esp Sus scrofa (domestic pig), typically having a long head with a movable snout, a thick bristle-covered skin, and, in wild species, long curved tusks
2.
a domesticated pig weighing more than 120 pounds (54 kg)
▶ Related adjective: porcine3. informal
a dirty, greedy, or bad-mannered person
4.
the meat of swine; pork
5. derogatory, slang
a police officer
6.
a.
a mass of metal, such as iron, copper, or lead, cast into a simple shape for ease of storing or transportation
b.
a mould in which such a mass of metal is formed
7. British informal
something that is difficult or unpleasant
8.
an automated device propelled through a duct or pipeline to clear impediments or check for faults, leaks, etc
9. a pig in a poke
10. make a pig of oneself
11. on the pig's back
verbWord forms: pigs, pigging or pigged
12. (intransitive)
(of a sow) to give birth
13. Also: pig it (intransitive) informal
to live in squalor
14. (transitive) informal
to devour (food) greedily
Word origin
C13 pigge, of obscure originpig in American English
(pɪg)
nounWord forms: plural pigs or pig
1.
any swine, esp. the unweaned young of the thick-bodied domesticated species (Sus scrofa)
see also hog (sense 1)2.
meat from a pig; pork
3.
a person regarded as acting or looking like a pig; greedy or filthy person
4.
a.
an oblong casting of iron or other metal poured from the smelting furnace
b.
any of the molds in which these are cast
c.
pig iron
5. Slang
a. US
a slatternly or sluttish woman
b.
a rude or arrogant person
c.
a police officer
a derogatory term verb intransitiveWord forms: pigged or ˈpigging
6.
to bear pigs
7.
to live in filth, like a pig
usually with itIdioms:
buy a pig in a poke
pig out
Word origin
ME pigge, orig., young pig (replacing OE swin) < OE *picga, as in picgbread, mast, pig's food; (sense 4) from the shape or sizepig in the Oil and Gas Industry
(pɪg)
Word forms: (regular plural) pigs
noun
(Extractive engineering: Field development, Equipment)
pig launcher, pig receiverA pig is a device that is put into a pipeline and is driven by product flow, in order to remove obstructions, seal the line, and carry out internal inspections.
Pigs are intelligent robotic devices that are propelled down pipelines to evaluate theinterior of the pipe.
Pigs are used in oil and gas pipelines to clean the pipes but they can also be used tomeasure things like pipe thickness and corrosion along the pipeline.
A pig is a device that is put into a pipeline and is driven by product flow, in order toremove obstructions, seal the line, and carry out internal inspections.
More idioms containingpig
happy as a pig in muck
a guinea pig
eat like a pig
make a pig of yourself
move like a greased pig
squeal like a stuck pig
sweat like a pig
sick as a pig
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related adjectives, homes and habitations, male animals, female animals, baby and young animalsIn other languagespig
British English: pig /pɪɡ/ NOUN
A pig is a farm animal with a pink, white, or black skin. Pigs are kept for their meat, which is called pork, ham, or bacon.
Kids can help feed the pigs.
- American English: pig
- Arabic: خِنْزِير
- Brazilian Portuguese: porco
- Chinese: 猪
- Croatian: svinja
- Czech: prase
- Danish: gris
- Dutch: varken
- European Spanish: cerdo
- Finnish: sika
- French: cochon
- German: Schwein
- Greek: γουρούνι
- Italian: maiale
- Japanese: 豚
- Korean: 돼지
- Norwegian: gris
- Polish: świnia
- European Portuguese: porco
- Romanian: porc
- Russian: свинья
- Latin American Spanish: cerdo
- Swedish: gris
- Thai: หมู
- Turkish: domuz
- Ukrainian: свиня
- Vietnamese: lợn
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Chinese translation of 'pig'
pig
(pɪɡ)
n (c)
-
猪(豬)
(zhū) (头, tóu) - (inf, = person)
- (unkind)
粗俗的人
(cūsú de rén) (个(個), gè) - (greedy)
贪(貪)吃的人
(tānchī de rén) (个(個), gè)
- (unkind)
1 (noun)
Definition
a mammal with a long head, a snout, and bristle-covered skin, which is kept and killed for pork, ham, and bacon
He keeps poultry, pigs and goats.
Synonyms
hog (US)
a hog farm in Alabama
sow
boar
piggy
swine
grunter
piglet
porker
shoat
2 (noun)
Definition
a dirty, greedy, or bad-mannered person
(informal) He's just a greedy pig.
Synonyms
slob
hog (informal)
guzzler (slang)
glutton
He's a real glutton when it comes to junk food.
gannet (informal)
sloven
greedy guts (slang)
3 (noun)
Definition
a dirty, greedy, or bad-mannered person
(informal) The whole incident just confirms what a pig he has become.
Synonyms
brute
an unpleasant brute
monster
You make me sound like an absolute monster!
scoundrel (old-fashioned)
He is a lying scoundrel.
animal
Desperation can turn people into absolute animals.
beast
He is an absolute beast in terms of his will to win.
rogue
He wasn't a rogue at all.
swine
rotter (old-fashioned)
The man's an absolute rotter!
boor
He was a braggart, a cynic and a boor.
phrasal verb
related words
related adjective porcine
name of male boar
name of female sow
name of young piglet
collective noun litter
name of home sty
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Additional synonyms
in the sense of animal
Definition
a cruel or coarse person
Desperation can turn people into absolute animals.
Synonyms
brute,
devil,
monster,
savage,
beast,
bastard (informal, offensive),
villain,
barbarian,
swine (informal),
wild person
in the sense of beast
Definition
a brutal or uncivilized person
He is an absolute beast in terms of his will to win.
Synonyms
brute,
monster,
savage,
barbarian,
fiend,
swine,
ogre,
ghoul,
sadist
in the sense of boor
Definition
an ill-mannered, clumsy, or insensitive person
He was a braggart, a cynic and a boor.
Synonyms
lout,
peasant (informal),
hick (informal, US, Canadian),
barbarian,
brute,
philistine,
redneck (US, slang),
oaf,
bumpkin,
vulgarian,
hayseed (US, Canadian, informal),
cougan (Australian, slang),
scozza (Australian, slang),
bogan (Australian, slang),
clodhopper (informal),
churl,
clodpole
Synonyms of 'pig'
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Additional synonyms
in the sense of glutton
Definition
someone who eats and drinks too much
He's a real glutton when it comes to junk food.
Synonyms
gourmand,
gorger,
gannet (slang),
gobbler,
gormandizer,
pig (informal)
in the sense of monster
Definition
an exceptionally cruel or wicked person
You make me sound like an absolute monster!
Synonyms
brute,
devil,
savage,
beast,
demon,
villain,
barbarian,
fiend,
ogre,
ghoul,
bogeyman
in the sense of rogue
Definition
a dishonest or unprincipled person
He wasn't a rogue at all.
Synonyms
scoundrel (old-fashioned),
crook (informal),
villain,
fraudster,
sharper,
fraud (informal),
cheat,
devil,
deceiver,
charlatan,
conman or woman (informal),
con artist (informal),
swindler,
knave (archaic),
ne'er-do-well,
reprobate,
scumbag (slang),
blackguard,
mountebank,
grifter (slang, US, Canadian),
skelm (South Africa),
rorter (Australian, slang),
wrong 'un (slang)
in the sense of rotter
Definition
a despicable person
The man's an absolute rotter!
Synonyms
scoundrel (old-fashioned),
rat (informal),
stinker (slang),
louse (slang),
cad (British, informal),
swine,
bounder (British, old-fashioned, slang),
blighter (British, informal),
cur,
scumbag (slang),
bad lot,
blackguard,
cocksucker (taboo, slang),
scrote (slang),
wrong 'un (slang)
in the sense of scoundrel
Definition
a person who cheats and deceives
He is a lying scoundrel.
Synonyms
rogue,
cad (old-fashioned, informal),
bastard (informal, offensive),
villain,
mother,
heel (slang),
cheat,
shit (taboo, slang),
bugger (taboo, slang),
swine,
rascal,
son-of-a-bitch (offensive, slang, US, Canadian),
asshole (US, Canadian, taboo, slang),
scally (NorthwestEngland, dialect),
turd (taboo, slang),
wretch,
incorrigible,
motherfucker (taboo, slang, US),
knave (archaic),
rotter (slang, British),
ne'er-do-well,
reprobate,
scumbag (slang),
good-for-nothing,
miscreant,
scamp,
bad egg (old-fashioned, informal),
blackguard,
cocksucker (taboo, slang),
scapegrace,
asswipe (US, Canadian, taboo, slang),
caitiff (archaic),
dastard (archaic),
skelm (South Africa),
wrong 'un (slang)
- fornicator
- fornicatress
- fornices
- fornix
- for no apparent reason
- for-no-apparent-reason
- for no reason/ for no reason at all
- for-no-reason-for-no-reason-at-all
- for nothing
- for now
- for obvious reasons
- for once
- for one
- for-one
- for one's life/for dear life
- for-ones-life-for-dear-life
- for one's money
- for-ones-money
- for one's part
- for-ones-part
- for one thing
- for openers
- for or in fun
- forpet
- for pete's sake!