pig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɪɡ/
ipa: [pʰɪɡ]
rhymes: -ɪɡ
Forms: form: pigs
Etymology: From Middle English pigge (“pig, pigling”) (originally a term for a young pig, with adult pigs being swyn (“swine”)), apparently from Old English *picga (attested only in compounds, such as picgbrēad (“mast, pig-fodder”)), from Proto-West Germanic *piggō, *puggō (“piglet”). Compare Middle Dutch pogge, puggen, pigge, pegsken (“pigling”), Middle Low German pugge, pûke (“piglet”). Pokorny suggests this root might be somehow related to *bū-, *bew- (“to blow; swell”), which could account for the alternation between "pig" and "big".
A connection to early modern Dutch bigge (contemporary big (“piglet”)), West Frisian bigge (“pigling”), and similar terms in Middle Low German is sometimes proposed, "but the phonology is difficult". Some sources say the words are "almost certainly not" related, others consider a relation "probable, but not certain".
The slang sense of "police officer" is attested since at least 1785.
Senses: examples: text: The man kept a pen with two pigs that he fed everything from carrots to cabbage.
text: […]and at the back a rambling courtledge of barns and walls, around which pigs and bare-foot children grunted in loving communion of dirt.
ref: 1855, Charles Kingsley, “How Salvation Yeo Slew the King of the Gubbings”, in Westward Ho!: Or, The Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, […], volume II, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC, page 113:
synonyms: hog
suid
swine
glosses: Any of several mammalian species of the family Suidae, having cloven hooves, bristles and a snout adapted for digging; especially the domesticated animal Sus domesticus.
examples: text: Weanlings grow into feeder pigs, and feeder pigs grow into slaughter hogs. […] Ultimately the end use for virtually all pigs and hogs is to be slaughtered for the production of pork and other products.
ref: 2005 April, Live Swine from Canada, Investigation No. 731-TA-1076 (Final), publication 3766, April 2005, U.S. International Trade Commission, →ISBN, page I-9:
synonyms: hog
suid
swine
glosses: Any of several mammalian species of the family Suidae, having cloven hooves, bristles and a snout adapted for digging; especially the domesticated animal Sus domesticus.
A young swine, a piglet (contrasted with a hog, an adult swine).
examples: text: Some religions prohibit their adherents from eating pig.
text: "Miss Chastene, could you fetch me out an extra plate of pig and biscuit. My partner can't do without your marvelous cooking."
ref: 2005, Ross Eddy Osborn, Thorns of a Tainted Rose, →ISBN, page 196:
glosses: The edible meat of such an animal; pork.
examples: text: So far on the streets there's been a lot of metallic pink (the kind of pink as in the shade of pig you get, and this is exactly the shade of the diary I've been writing in) […]
ref: 2019, Bee Smith, Queen Bee's Party:
glosses: A light pinkish-red colour, like that of a pig (also called pig pink).
examples: text: You gluttonous pig! Now that you've eaten all the cupcakes, there will be none for the party!
text: When you figure out the maze and get to the middle, that's when you get your free cocoa. It's on a table in two big thermos jugs, and there's cups and a ladle, and the sign says, "One cup per customer, PLEASE!" because some people are pigs.
ref: 2008, Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed, Ch.4, at p.86
synonyms: word: belly-god
word: buzgut
word: cormorant
word: epicure
word: gannet
word: glutton
word: gorger
word: gourmand
word: gormandizer
word: greedyguts
word: guttle
word: hog
word: Homer Simpson
word: helluo
word: pig
word: slow belly
word: trencherman
glosses: Someone who overeats or eats rapidly and noisily.
examples: text: She considered him a pig, as he invariably stared at her bosom when they talked.
glosses: A lecherous or sexist man.
examples: text: He was a pig and his apartment a pigpen; take-away containers and pizza boxes in a long, moldy stream lined his counter tops.
glosses: A dirty or slovenly person.
synonyms: word: All are derogatory unless otherwise labeled
word: butterball
word: chubster
word: chunker
word: chunky monkey
word: elephant
word: fat
word: fatfuck
word: fatso
word: fattie
word: fatty
word: fatty bom bom
word: fatty boombalatty
word: fat-ass
word: fatass
word: fat fuck
word: fatshit
word: fussock
word: gorbelly
word: hambeast
word: hamplanet
word: heffalump
word: landwhale
word: lardass
word: lardbucket
word: lardo
word: oinker
word: obeast
word: pig
word: podge
word: porker
word: pudge
word: roly-poly
word: salad dodger
word: swagbelly
word: thunder thighs
word: tubbo
word: tub of guts
word: tub of lard
word: whale
glosses: An obese person.
examples: text: The protester shouted, “Don't give in to the pigs!” as he was arrested.
text: There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down brothers on the instant replay
ref: 1971, Gil Scott-Heron, “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised”:
text: “...Sounds too easy,” Marvin was saying. “What about the pigs?”
He meant police.
ref: 1989, Dan Simmons, Carrion Comfort, page 359:
text: The bank robberies went on and each raid became more bloody, Meinhof encouraging her followers to “kill the pigs” offering the slightest resistance, referring to policemen.
ref: 1990, Jay Robert Nash, Encyclopedia of World Crime: Volume 1: A-C, page 198:
text: Backing 300 of the more aggressive protesters was a supporting cast of several thousand more who stared down the small line of police. Those in front resumed their taunts of “Pig, pig, fascist pig,” and “pigs eat shit, pigs eat shit.” The rest of the crowd, however, backed off and sat down on the grass when reinforcements arrived. Police did not retaliate for the name-calling, and within minutes the line of demonstrators broke apart and the incident was over without violence.¹¹³
ref: 2008, Frank Kusch, Battleground Chicago: The Police and the 1968 Democratic National Convention, page 63:
text: But me, I joined the party to fight the pigs. That′s why I joined. Because my experience with the police was always negative.
ref: 2011, T. J. English, The Savage City: Race, Murder and a Generation on the Edge, unnumbered page:
text: Got a mind for the undies
I'm tryna stay far from the pigs
ref: 2017, “All This”, performed by Mayhem (Uptop):
synonyms: word: 5-O
word: alphabet
word: barney
word: beatsman
word: bizzie
word: bluebottle
word: bluecoat
word: blue heeler
word: blue meanie
word: bobby
word: body snatcher
word: bogey
word: boy in blue
word: bull
word: bullyman
word: buttons
word: centenier
word: charpering omi
word: chazzer
word: cobbler
word: cop
word: copper
word: cozzer
word: cracker
word: crusher
word: crowns
word: dibble
word: fed
word: filth
word: finest
word: finger
word: five-o
word: flatfoot
word: flatty
word: fuzz
word: garda
word: gendarme
word: glowie
word: guardian of the peace
word: harman
word: harman-beck
word: jack
word: jackboot
word: jake
word: John Law
word: John Q. Law
word: Johnny Hopper
word: lawman
word: mee-maw
word: monarch
word: Mr Plod
word: mutton shunter
word: nuthook
word: oinker
word: Officer Friendly
word: Old Bill
word: PC Plod
word: pig
word: piggy
word: peeler
word: plod
word: police
word: police officer
word: policeman
word: policeperson
word: polis
word: po-po
word: raw lobster
word: roller
word: rozzer
word: scufter
word: slop
word: swine
word: statie
word: twelve
word: tyre biter
word: unboiled lobster
word: walloper
word: wooden-top
glosses: A police officer.
examples: text: Hrm... this one's a real pig: I've been banging my head against the wall over it for hours!
text: Chewing-gum is a pig to get out of your hair.
glosses: A difficult problem.
examples: text: The conveyor carried the pigs from the smelter to the freight cars.
text: Standing near the side, he had observed Rex and Fair bring up a great pig of iron, erst used as part of the ballast of the brig, and poise it on the rail.
ref: 1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life, Penguin, published 2009, page 138:
glosses: An oblong block of cast metal (now only iron or lead).
examples: text: The pig was cracked, and molten metal was oozing from the side.
glosses: The mold in which a block of metal is cast.
examples: text: Taylor also bought a pig—a radiation-shielding container made of thick lead—to stash the most radioactive materials in.
ref: 2015, Tom Clynes, The Boy Who Played with Fusion, page 36:
text: Forceps and a lead container (called a pig) that are routinely placed in the room are used to retrieve and contain the source.
ref: 2015, Adrianne Dill Linton, Introduction to Medical-Surgical Nursing, page 394:
glosses: A lead container used for radioactive waste.
examples: text: Unfortunately, the pig sent to clear the obstruction got lodged in a tight bend, adding to the problem.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A device for cleaning or inspecting the inside of an oil or gas pipeline, or for separating different substances within the pipeline. Named for the pig-like squealing noise made by their progress.
examples: text: Unfortunately, the M60 is about twenty-four pounds and is very unbalanced. You try carrying the pig around the jungle and see how you feel.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The general-purpose M60 machine gun, considered to be heavy and bulky.
glosses: A simple dice game in which players roll the dice as many times as they like, either accumulating a greater score or losing previous points gained.
synonyms: sow's baby
glosses: A sixpence.
glosses: A Cadillac car.
glosses: A Harley-Davidson motorcycle.
Synonyms: word: grice
word: hog
word: oinker
word: pig
word: piggy
word: porker
word: squealer
word: swine
Hypernyms: word: animal
word: creature
word: farm animal
word: mammal
word: omnivore
word: Suidae
word: Sus
word: vertebrate
Hyponyms: word: boar
word: brood sow
word: herd boar
word: hogget
word: piglet
word: pigling
word: shoat
word: sow
Meronyms: word: bacon
word: chitterlings
word: ham
word: hog maw
word: pigmeat
word: pig's trotter
word: pork
word: pork loin
word: sowbelly
word: swineflesh
word: hock
word: pigskin
word: pigtail
word: snout
word: trotter
Derived terms: sense: terms derived from the noun "pig"
word: antipig
sense: terms derived from the noun "pig"
word: as happy as a pig in mud
sense: terms derived from the noun "pig"
word: Australasian pig-nose turtle
sense: terms derived from the noun "pig"
word: baby pig disease
sense: terms derived from the noun "pig"
word: banded pig
sense: terms derived from the noun "pig"
word: bearded pig
sense: terms derived from the noun "pig"
word: bleed like a pig
sense: terms derived from the noun "pig"
word: bleed like a stuck pig
sense: terms derived from the noun "pig"
word: blind pig
sense: terms derived from the noun "pig"
word: blue-ear pig disease
sense: terms derived from the noun "pig"
word: bush pig
sense: terms derived from the noun "pig"
word: Celebes warty pig
sense: terms derived from the noun "pig"
word: cold pig
sense: terms derived from the noun "pig"
word: common as pig tracks
sense: terms derived from the noun "pig"
word: couldn't stop a pig in a passage
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word: Creole pig
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word: deer-pig
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word: dish pig
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word: dying pig
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word: earthpig
sense: terms derived from the noun "pig"
word: earth pig
sense: terms derived from the noun "pig"
word: earth-pig
sense: terms derived from the noun "pig"
word: eat like a pig
sense: terms derived from the noun "pig"
word: Enviropig
sense: terms derived from the noun "pig"
word: even a blind pig can find an acorn
sense: terms derived from the noun "pig"
word: even a blind pig can find an acorn once in a while
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word: fat as a pig
sense: terms derived from the noun "pig"
word: flying pig
sense: terms derived from the noun "pig"
word: fuckpig
sense: terms derived from the noun "pig"
word: furze pig
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word: furze-pig
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word: go to Putney on a pig
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word: guinea pig
sense: terms derived from the noun "pig"
word: guinea-pig
sense: terms derived from the noun "pig"
word: guinea pig director
sense: terms derived from the noun "pig"
word: happy as a pig in mud
sense: terms derived from the noun "pig"
word: happy as a pig in shit
sense: terms derived from the noun "pig"
word: hedgepig
sense: terms derived from the noun "pig"
word: hell pig
sense: terms derived from the noun "pig"
word: housepig
sense: terms derived from the noun "pig"
word: if pigs had wings
sense: terms derived from the noun "pig"
word: in a pig's eye
sense: terms derived from the noun "pig"
word: in pig
sense: terms derived from the noun "pig"
word: like a pig in clover
sense: terms derived from the noun "pig"
word: like a stuck pig
sense: terms derived from the noun "pig"
word: long-eared guinea pig
sense: terms derived from the noun "pig"
word: long pig
sense: terms derived from the noun "pig"
word: make a pig of oneself
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word: make a pig out of oneself
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word: micropig
sense: terms derived from the noun "pig"
word: minipig
sense: terms derived from the noun "pig"
word: nonpig
sense: terms derived from the noun "pig"
word: no prize pig
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word: paypig
sense: terms derived from the noun "pig"
word: pay pig
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word: penny-pig
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word: pig-a-back
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word: pig ark
sense: terms derived from the noun "pig"
word: pigass
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word: Pigasus
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word: pigback
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word: pig bank
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word: pig bed
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word: pig board
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word: pigboat
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word: pig butcher
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word: pig butchering
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word: pig dog
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word: pigdom
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word: pigface
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word: pig farm
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word: pig farmer
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word: pigfeed
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word: pigfest
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word: pigfish
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word: pigflesh
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word: pig flu
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word: pigfoot
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word: pig-footed bandicoot
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word: Pigford
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word: pigfucker
sense: terms derived from the noun "pig"
word: pig-fucker
sense: terms derived from the noun "pig"
word: pig fucker
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word: pigfucking
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word: pigful
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word: Piggate
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word: pigger
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word: piggery
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word: piggie
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word: piggish
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word: pig goose
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word: piggy
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word: piggyback
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word: piggy bank
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word: pighead
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word: pigheaded
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word: pig-headed
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word: pigherd
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word: pighood
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word: pig-ignorant
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word: pig in a blanket
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word: pig in a poke
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word: pig in the middle
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word: pig in the python
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word: pig iron
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word: pig it
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word: pig-jawed
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word: pig latin
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word: pig Latin
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word: pig launcher
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word: pig lead
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word: pigless
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word: piglet
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word: piglice
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word: piglike
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word: pigling
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word: pigloo
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word: pigmaker
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word: pigmaking
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word: pigman
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word: pigmeat
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word: pignapper
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word: pig-nosed turtle
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word: pig-nose turtle
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word: pignut
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word: pig off
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word: pigopoly
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word: pigout
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word: pig out
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word: pig-out
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word: pig party
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word: pigpen
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word: pig pile
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word: pig plague
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word: pig-proof
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word: pigproof
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word: pig-rat
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word: pigroot
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word: pig run
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word: pig-run
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word: pigscot
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word: pigshit
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word: pig-sick
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word: pigsicle
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word: pigsit
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word: pigsitter
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word: pigskin
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word: pigs may fly
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word: pig squeal
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word: pigstick
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word: pig sticker
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word: pigsticker
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word: pig-sticking
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word: pigsty
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word: pigstye
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word: pigswash
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word: pigswill
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word: pigtail
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word: pig-tailed
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word: pig-tailed langur
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word: pig-tailed macaque
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word: pig-tail splice
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word: pig toilet
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word: pig upon bacon
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word: pig upon pork
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word: pigwash
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word: pigweed
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word: pigyard
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word: pig yoke
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word: plastic pig
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word: pot-bellied pig
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word: potbellied pig
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word: puffing pig
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word: put lipstick on a pig
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word: quill pig
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word: resource pig
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word: rig pig
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word: salt pig
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word: sea pig
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word: skinny pig
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word: skunk pig
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word: slam pig
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word: southern pig-tailed macaque
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word: spine pig
sense: terms derived from the noun "pig"
word: squeal like a stuck pig
sense: terms derived from the noun "pig"
word: stare like a stuck pig
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word: sucking-pig
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word: suckling pig
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word: Sulawesi warty pig
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word: sweat like a pig
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word: tantony pig
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word: terminator pig
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word: thick as pig shit
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word: truffle pig
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word: Vietnamese pot-bellied pig
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word: water pig
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word: when pigs fly
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word: whistle pig
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word: whistle-pig
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word: wild pig
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word: wild pig syndrome
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word: wrestle with a pig
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word: year of the pig
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word: Yorkshire pig
Related terms: word: hoggish
word: pannage
word: piggery
word: pigpen
word: pigsty
word: porciform
word: porcine