pigs' feet
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5.5
- noun
- /pɪɡz fiːt/
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patas de cerdo
- My grandmother used to make a delicious stew with pigs' feet and spices.
- pickled pigs' feet
Examples
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Head cheese, souse, and scrapple; pigs' feet and fried pig ears; tongue, brain
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I was raised on pig's feet.
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This is the last time I feed this boy pickled pigs' feet.
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I'd like to offer you a pickled pig's feet.
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Cheap food included organ meats, pig's feet, and whatever you grew in your garden.
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Pigs' feet and calves' heads waiting for sauce vinaigrette.
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Pig's feet stew is delicious and it's the main ingredient in making Jello.
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There's missing a bucket of pickled pigs' feet in vinegar, a ham, and a paté.
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At the market, I found a jar of pigs' feet that were pickled in vinegar.
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For dinner, we enjoyed pigs' feet cooked with collard greens and cornbread.
Synonyms
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8.3
The foot of a pig or sheep cooked and eaten as food
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7.8
The feet of pigs cooked and eaten, often pickled or stewed
Surface Forms
Morphology
pigs' + foot
The phrase denotes literally the feet of pigs (used as food), so a learner who knows 'pig' and 'foot/feet' can directly derive the meaning from the constituents. The construction is compositional and cross-linguistically common (descriptive possessive + body part), so it is readily understandable to a B1 learner despite the irregular plural form.
Etymology
The noun pigs' feet comes from a simple, literal image: cooks used the feet of pigs and boiled or pickled them to make a rich dish. That's why the phrase means 'the cooked feet of pigs'.