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

suey

9.9

A sound people make to bring pigs to a pen

noun
/ˈsuːi/

Informal

: suey

The farmer shouted suey to gather the pigs.

Examples

When the farmer shouted suey, all the pigs ran towards him in response.
When I call suey, the hogs come running.
The farmer called out suey to gather the pigs for feeding time.
With a loud suey, she signaled the hogs to come closer to the pen.
Children laughed as they tried shouting suey to see if the pigs would respond.
During the evening feeding, the children learned to call the pigs by saying suey.
To gather the hogs for the night, the farmer would often exclaim suey to bring them home.

Synonyms

sooey

vssuey

Archaic

1 9.9

A sound farmers use to call pigs

is the general farm call without the North American regional label

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 singular

sueys plural

Etymology

Suey is the name of a simple farm call that began as the shout sooey, a sound people used to bring pigs closer. That's why Suey means the exclamation or call used to attract pigs.