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Definition of 'pig' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) pig
a young swine of either sex, esp. a domestic hog, Sus scrofa, weighing less than 120 lb. (54 kg).

2.  pig
any wild or domestic swine.

3.  pig
the flesh of swine; pork.

4.  pig
a person who is gluttonous, greedy, or slovenly.

5.  pig
an oblong mass of metal that has been run while still molten into a mold of sand or the like.

6.  pig
one of the molds for such masses of metal.

7.  pig
metal in the form of such masses.

8. (v.i.) pig
to bring forth pigs; farrow.

9.  pig
Slang. to overindulge in eating:
We pigged out on pizza last night.

Etymology:  (1920–25, Amer.)

Definition of 'pig' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) hog, pig, grunter, squealer, Sus scrofa
domestic swine

2. (noun) slob, sloven, pig, slovenly person
a coarse obnoxious person

3. (noun) hog, pig
a person regarded as greedy and pig-like

4. (noun) bull, cop, copper, fuzz, pig
uncomplimentary terms for a policeman

5. (noun) pig bed, pig
mold consisting of a bed of sand in which pig iron is cast

6. (verb) pig
a crude block of metal (lead or iron) poured from a smelting furnace

7. (verb) pig, pig it
live like a pig, in squalor

8. (verb) devour, guttle, raven, pig
eat greedily
"he devoured three sandwiches"

9. (verb) farrow, pig
give birth
"sows farrow"


Definition of 'pig' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (noun) pig
a farm animal with no fur and a flat nose, kept for its meat

2. (verb) pig
to eat a lot at one time
We pigged out on cake and ice cream.


Definition of 'pig' Webster Dictionary 

1. (noun) pig
a piggin

2. (noun) pig
the young of swine, male or female; also, any swine; a hog

3. (noun) pig
any wild species of the genus Sus and related genera

4. (noun) pig
an oblong mass of cast iron, lead, or other metal. See Mine pig, under Mine

5. (noun) pig
one who is hoggish; a greedy person

6.  pig
to bring forth (pigs); to bring forth in the manner of pigs; to farrow

7.  pig
to huddle or lie together like pigs, in one bed


Translation of 'pig' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: a kind of farm animal whose flesh is eaten as pork, ham and bacon
He keeps pigs.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: vark Arabic flag Arabic: خَنْزير Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: прасе
Brazilian flag Brazilian: porco Czech flag Czech: prase German flag German: das Schwein
Danish flag Danish: svin; gris Greek flag Greek: χοίρος, γουρούνι Spanish flag Spanish: cerdo, puerco
Estonian flag Estonian: siga Farsi flag Farsi: خوک Finnish flag Finnish: sika
French flag French: porc Hebrew flag Hebrew: חֲזִיר Hindi flag Hindi: सुअर
Croatian flag Croatian: svinja Hungarian flag Hungarian: disznó Indonesian flag Indonesian: babi
Icelandic flag Icelandic: svín Italian flag Italian: maiale Japanese flag Japanese: 
Korean flag Korean: 돼지 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: kiaulė Latvian flag Latvian: cūka
Malay flag Malay: khinzir Dutch flag Dutch: varken Norwegian flag Norwegian: gris, svin
Polish flag Polish: świnia Persian flag Persian: خوک Pashto flag Pashto: خوګ
Portuguese flag Portuguese: porco Romanian flag Romanian: porc Russian flag Russian: свинья
Slovak flag Slovak: prasa Slovenian flag Slovenian: prašič Serbian flag Serbian: svinja
Swedish flag Swedish: gris, svin Thai flag Thai: หมู Turkish flag Turkish: domuz
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese:  Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: свиня; порося Urdu flag Urdu: خنزير، سور
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: con lợn Chinese flag Chinese: 

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