noun pl. pigs or pig
- any swine, esp. the unweaned young of the thick-bodied domesticated species (Sus scrofa)
- meat from a pig; pork
- a person regarded as acting or looking like a pig; greedy or filthy person
Origin:
from the shape or size
- an oblong casting of iron or other metal poured from the smelting furnace
- any of the molds in which these are cast
- pig iron
- Slang
- ☆ a slatternly or sluttish woman
- a rude or arrogant person
- a police officer: a derogatory term
Origin:
ME pigge, orig., young pig (replacing OE swin) < OE *picga, as in picgbread, mast, pig's food
intransitive verb pigged, pigging
- to bear pigs
- to live in filth, like a pig: usually with it