to pig
- verb
- /pɪg/
- Informal
Synonyms
To live in a very dirty and untidy way in your home without caring about cleaning
Idioms
- Offensive
To behave in a greedy and messy way, often when eating with others
- Informal
To make small changes to something bad so it looks better without fixing the real problem
- Informal
To buy something without checking it first and risk being cheated
Phrasal Verbs
- Offensive
To live in a very dirty and untidy way in your home without caring about cleaning
Compounds
A very young pig that still drinks its mother's milk, often cooked whole for roasting
- Specialized
People pour hot iron from a furnace into bars to be made into steel later
- Specialized
A small bush with narrow leaves and red flowers that is poisonous to young farm animals
- Specialized
A deep-sea animal that looks like a fat sea cucumber and crawls on the ocean floor
Surface Forms
Etymology
Pig meaning to live in a very dirty or untidy way comes from the animal's habit of rolling in mud, so to pig is to make your home or habits messy like a pig.