pig
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1.0
- noun
- /pɪg/
:
cerdo
- Black pudding is pig's blood, pig fat and oats.
- raise pigs
- pig farms
- pigs and pork
A week old flower, a pig brought into slaughter.
- A week old flower, a pig brought into slaughter.
- You can hear all the pigs scared in their troughs.
- Is that God knew, Hey, pigs and shellfish.
- So you've got cattle, you have pigs, you have ducks, you've got chickens.
- The kids are working hard and they raise pigs for the officials to eat.
- OK, there's other footage of pigs having fun, right?
- Be the third pig, Chris, Be the third pig.
Examples
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Jay and I used to always feed the leftover bones and things to that big pig you guys had.
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She sold one of her pigs.
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So this is a pig, not a dog.
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Within one day thereafter, the disease had spread to pigs in all other age groups.
Academic text (2015) -
PEDV infection was confirmed in a pig herd in Germany in 2014.
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He's got nothing to prove by running the 40 for cameras like he's some kind of prize pig at a state fair.
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We know cats, dogs, cows, pigs, goats, sheep.
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Clinicians should consider S. suis infection in areas where pig exposure is common.
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The first cases occurred after new feeder pigs from a large piglet producer were brought onto the farm.
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Farmers usually raise a pig for its meat and other products like bacon.
Synonyms
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1.0
A large pig kept on a farm for meat
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3.2
A farm animal like a pig that is raised for meat
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7.0
A pig raised to be sold for meat
A farm pig that makes short low noises
Idioms
- Offensive
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8.0
To behave in a greedy and messy way, often when eating with others
- Informal
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8.4
To make small changes to something bad so it looks better without fixing the real problem
- Informal
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9.9
To buy something without checking it first and risk being cheated
Compounds
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6.6
A very young pig that still drinks its mother's milk, often cooked whole for roasting
- Specialized
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4.9
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
How Young
Surface Forms
Etymology
Pig is a very old English word for the farm animal kept for meat and other products, and it gives us the word piglet, which is 'a small pig'.