long pig consumption
- noun
- Offensive
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canibalismo
- Anthropologists have studied historical instances of long pig consumption in remote island cultures.
Examples
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Some tribes practiced long pig consumption as part of their rituals.
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The explorer's diary contained chilling descriptions of long pig consumption.
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The taboo surrounding long pig consumption remains strong in modern society.
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Is long pig consumption still practiced in some cultures?
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Anthropologists have studied historical instances of long pig consumption in remote island cultures.
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The explorer's diary contained chilling descriptions of long pig consumption.
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Some tribes practiced long pig consumption as part of their rituals.
Synonyms
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Eating members of the same species, for example people eating other people
The act of eating the body of another person
Eating members of the same group, often as a ritual
An animal or person eating another member of the same species
Surface Forms
Morphology
long + pig + consumption
The term 'long pig' is a culture-specific euphemism for human flesh, so the meaning 'eating human flesh' cannot be derived from the literal constituents 'long' (length), 'pig' (animal) and 'consumption' (eating). A B1 learner who knows the individual words would most likely interpret the phrase as eating pigs or something long and porcine, not as cannibalism, making the expression unpredictable and idiomatic.
Etymology
The term long pig consumption comes from people who compared human meat to pork and called it long pig, while consumption meant 'eating'. So the phrase became a quiet way to say 'eating human flesh'.