Pig
English Meaning
A piggin.
- Any of several mammals of the family Suidae, having short legs, cloven hooves, bristly hair, and a cartilaginous snout used for digging, especially the domesticated hog, Sus scrofa domesticus, when young or of comparatively small size.
- The edible parts of one of these mammals.
- Informal A person regarded as being piglike, greedy, or gross.
- A crude block of metal, chiefly iron or lead, poured from a smelting furnace.
- A mold in which such metal is cast.
- Pig iron.
- Offensive Slang Used as a disparaging term for a police officer.
- Slang A member of the social or political establishment, especially one holding sexist or racist views.
- To give birth to pigs; farrow.
- pig out Slang To eat ravenously; gorge oneself: "a parent who asks a child, 'Would you like to pig out on pizza?'” ( George F. Will).
- in a pig's eye Slang Under no condition; never.
- pig in a poke Something that is offered in a manner that conceals its true nature or value.
- pig it Slang To live in a piglike fashion.
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