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🍲 A pork dish 🐖 To call pigs 🐖 A pig call
suey

suey

1 9.9
A loud shout to make pigs come on a farm
  • interjection
  • /ˈsuːi/
  • Informal
translation icon : suey
  • Come on, suey! It's time for dinner!

Examples

  • The farmer shouted, suey to gather the pigs.

  • Children laughed as they tried shouting suey to see if the pigs would respond.

  • The farmer called out suey to gather the pigs for feeding time.

  • With a loud suey, she signaled the animals to come closer to the pen.

  • Suey! Come here, piglets!

  • In the early morning, the farmer shouted, 'suey!' to call the pigs for feeding.

  • When she opened the gate, she called out, 'suey!' to get the pigs to come along.

Synonyms

sooey
vssuey
  • Archaic
1 9.9

A sound farmers use to call pigs

is not limited to a single geographical region

Compounds

chop suey
3 3.4

A Chinese-style dish of meat or fish and vegetables stir-fried and served with rice

chop-suey greens
  • Philippine
6.3

A leafy green vegetable used in Asian cooking like bok choy

Surface Forms

suey main

Etymology

Suey comes from an old farm shout sooey that people used to call pigs, much like saying 'yoo-hoo' to get someone's attention. So Suey is still used as a pig-calling interjection today.