pig

Definitions


[pɪɡ], (Noun)

Definitions:
- an omnivorous domesticated hoofed mammal with sparse bristly hair and a flat snout for rooting in the soil, kept for its meat

- a greedy, dirty, or unpleasant person
(e.g: I bet he's scoffed them all, greedy pig)

- a police officer
(e.g: 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


Phrases:
- a pig in a poke
- a pig of a —
- bleed like a stuck pig
- in a pig's eye
- in pig
- make a pig of oneself
- make a pig's ear of
- on the pig's back
- pig in the python
- pigs might fly
- put lipstick on a pig
- squeal like a pig
- sweat like a pig

Origin:
Middle English: probably from the first element of Old English picbrēd ‘acorn’, literally ‘pig bread’ (i.e. food for pigs)


[pɪɡ], (Verb)

Definitions:
- gorge oneself with food
(e.g: 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
(e.g: they will carry out all trenching and pigging)


Phrases:
- a pig in a poke
- a pig of a —
- bleed like a stuck pig
- in a pig's eye
- in pig
- make a pig of oneself
- make a pig's ear of
- on the pig's back
- pig in the python
- pigs might fly
- put lipstick on a pig
- squeal like a pig
- sweat like a pig

Origin:
Middle English: probably from the first element of Old English picbrēd ‘acorn’, literally ‘pig bread’ (i.e. food for pigs)




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