pig
noun
[ pɪɡ ]
• an omnivorous domesticated hoofed mammal with sparse bristly hair and a flat snout for rooting in the soil, kept for its meat.
Similar:
hog,
boar,
sow,
porker,
swine,
piglet,
piggy,
baconer,
cutter,
grunter,
• a greedy, dirty, or unpleasant person.
• "I bet he's scoffed them all, greedy pig"
Similar:
glutton,
guzzler,
gobbler,
gorger,
gourmand,
gourmandizer,
binge eater,
greedy pig,
hog,
guts,
gannet,
greedy guts,
gorb,
brute,
monster,
devil,
scoundrel,
rogue,
wretch,
bastard,
beast,
louse,
swine,
rat,
son of a bitch,
SOB,
low life,
toerag,
scrote,
blighter,
heel,
stinker,
bounder,
rotter,
cad,
shit,
sod,
bugger,
• a police officer.
• "were the pigs there when the windows were smashed or not?"
• an oblong mass of iron or lead from a smelting furnace.
• a device which fits snugly inside an oil or gas pipeline and is sent through it to clean or test the inside, or to act as a barrier.
pig
verb
• gorge oneself with food.
• "he'd pigged himself on the last of the food"
• (of a sow) give birth to piglets; farrow.
• operate a pig within an oil or gas pipeline.
• "they will carry out all trenching and pigging"
Origin:
Middle English: probably from the first element of Old English picbrēd ‘acorn’, literally ‘pig bread’ (i.e. food for pigs).
in pig
• (of a sow) pregnant.
