sooey
1
9.9
A word farmers use to mean a pig
- noun
- /ˈsuːi/
- Archaic
:
cerdo
- The farmer shouted 'sooey!' to gather his pigs for the evening feeding.
Examples
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Your calendar, your cell phone, your whoo pig sooey hat, and some pictures of that ketch you wanted.
Fiction book (2000) -
When it was time to feed the pigs, he called out, 'Here, sooey! Here, pig!'
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She threw some corn and shouted, 'Sooey! Come get your food!' to the hungry pigs.
Synonyms
grunter
vssooey
8.2
A farm pig that makes short low noises
is a rural or dialect name used to call that farm animal
Surface Forms
Etymology
Sooey as a noun comes from the same pig-calling sound soo-ee, because farmers often used the shout for the animals and it became a name for them. So a sooey can mean a pig in rural or dialect speech.