pignoun [ C ]
uk/pɪɡ/us/pɪɡ/pig noun [ C ] (ANIMAL)
A1 US also hog a large pink, brown, or black farm animal with short legs and a curved tail, kept for its meat:
The meat produced from a pig is called pork, bacon, or ham.
a pig farm
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- The main course of the feast was roast suckling pig.
- Loud grunts were coming from the pig sty.
- a pig pen
- a dish of pigs' trotters
- These pigs all have curly tails.
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Pigs
- boar
- hog
- piggy
- piglet
- porker
- sow 1
- swine
- warthog
- wild boar
pig noun [ C ] (UNPLEASANT PERSON/THING)
informal a person who is unpleasant and difficult to deal with:
He was an absolute pig to her.
He's a real pig of a man.
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Unpleasant people in general
- a dog in the manger idiom
- a nasty piece of work idiom
- a tough/hard nut idiom
- a wolf in sheep's clothing idiom
- bad lot
- intruder
- know-all
- know-it-all
- leech
- make sb's skin crawl idiom
- rotter
- runt
- sadist
- scum
- scumbag
- undesirables
- vermin
- villain
- villain of the piece idiom
- viper
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be a pig to do, play, etc. UK informal
to be very difficult or unpleasant to do, play, etc.:
It's a beautiful piece of music but it's a pig to play.
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Difficult things and people
- a (heavy) cross to bear idiom
- a bitter pill (to swallow) idiom
- a hard/tough nut to crack idiom
- albatross
- bane
- chill
- equation
- handicap
- hiccup
- hot potato
- impediment
- job
- labyrinth
- liability
- nut
- the chill wind of sth idiom
- the hard way idiom
- the sharp end
- thorn in your flesh/side idiom
- tie-up
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pig noun [ C ] (EATS TOO MUCH)
informal a person who eats too much:
You greedy pig! You're not having another biscuit!
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Greedy
- avarice
- consumerism
- eye
- glutton
- gluttonous
- gluttony
- grasping
- greed
- greedy
- greedy guts
- growth-oriented
- Mammon
- materialism
- materialist
- materialistic
- mercenary
- money-grubbing
- sb's eyes are bigger than their belly/stomach idiom
- wolfish
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Unpleasant people in general
pig noun [ C ] (POLICE)
offensive a police officer
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People who work for the police service
- bobby
- cadet
- chaperone
- chief constable
- constable
- cop
- fed
- G-man
- inspector
- Mountie
- nark
- officer
- outrider
- patrolman
- policeman
- policewoman
- prefect
- sepoy
- sergeant
- trooper
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Idiom(s)
make a pig of yourself
make a pig's ear of sth
a pig in a poke
pigs might fly