pigs

Variant of pig

pig definition

pig (pig)

noun pl. pigs or pig

  1. any swine, esp. the unweaned young of the thick-bodied domesticated species (Sus scrofa)
  2. meat from a pig; pork
  3. a person regarded as acting or looking like a pig; greedy or filthy person
  4. Etymology: from the shape or size

    1. an oblong casting of iron or other metal poured from the smelting furnace
    2. any of the molds in which these are cast
    3. pig iron
  5. Slang
    1. ☆ a slatternly or sluttish woman
    2. a rude or arrogant person
    3. a police officer: a derogatory term

Etymology: ME pigge, orig., young pig (replacing OE swin) < OE *picga, as in picgbread, mast, pig's food

intransitive verb pigged, pigging pig′·ging

  1. to bear pigs
  2. to live in filth, like a pig: usually with it
pig Idioms

buy a pig in a poke

to buy, get, or agree to something without sight or knowledge of it in advance

pig out

Slang to eat in excess or large amounts: often with on

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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