Definition of pig in English:

pig

nounPlural pigs pɪɡpɪɡ

1An omnivorous domesticated hoofed mammal with sparse bristly hair and a flat snout for rooting in the soil, kept for its meat.
Sus domesticus, family Suidae (the pig family), descended from the wild boar and domesticated over 8,000 years ago. The pig family also includes the warthog and babirusa
Example sentencesExamples
- The hides of cattle, sheep, pigs, goats and deer, and perhaps horses, were all used.
- Besides this, Spanish cattle, pigs, sheep, and goats introduced European meats and fats, milk, butter, and cheese to the Mexican diet.
- I researched all the farmers' markets and spent time on a rare breed pig farm in Cumbria.
- With the advent of farming in the Neolithic, a number of animal species were domesticated, starting with sheep, goats, pigs, and cattle.
- Cloned animals now include five species of mammals: sheep, goats, pigs, mice and cows - but all come with a dubious safety record.
- These features correlate with the more or less omnivorous diet of pigs and peccaries.
- Almost everyone worked with cattle, pigs, sheep, poultry and other domestic livestock.
- With the help of some farmers around, we kept two pigs fed on our leftovers.
- Foot and mouth can affect cattle, pigs, sheep and goats, leading to the development of blisters in the mouth causing increased salivation, and lameness.
- Settlements began to encourage the growth of plants such as barley and lentils and the domestication of pigs, sheep and goats.
- The telling factor could be if the disease gets into pig herds.
- But all cattle, sheep, pigs and goats will be banned from the show site.
- In addition, the water has been contaminated by discharge from local pig farms.
- Supplies of meat will be affected as cattle, pigs and sheep remain wherever they are.
- They first introduced horses, cattle, sheep, goats, pigs, and domestic poultry.
- Hair of pigs and horses are widely used in rugs and upholstery stuffings.
- When the programme is completed, it will have encompassed more than 1,200 pig herds.
- Remember to stress that they cannot keep the pot-bellied pig.
- The disease can affect cattle, sheep, pigs, goats and deer (cloven hoofed species).
- The animals that were kept domestically were much the same as today, sheep, pigs, cattle, goats and a few horses.
Synonyms
hog, boar, sow, porker, swine, piglet
children's word piggy
rare baconer, cutter, grunter
1. 1.1 A wild animal of the pig family; a hog.
  Example sentencesExamples
  In Missouri last week state wildlife officials publicly urged the nearly 500,000 licensed deer hunters to kill feral pigs too.
  Catlike predators with long tails, fossas hunt everything from lemurs and mice to wild pigs.
  Other creatures can also flourish there, including quail, jackrabbits, and small, wild pigs called javelinas.
  In warmer periods the reindeer and mammoths would withdraw northwards, but they would give place to deer and wild pigs, which prefer a wooded environment.
  We enjoy long walks on the trails searching for the perfect walking stick, tracking deer, wild pigs and other animals.
  Ecologically, they range from forest dwellers, such as wild pigs and chevrotains, to dominant large herbivores on grasslands.
  Because of the rich diversity of this region, Nicobari pigeons, wild pigs, monitor lizards, tortoises, and crocodiles thrive there.
  Less than 25 percent of those eggs would hatch in the wild, with the rest eaten by monitor lizards and feral wild pigs or drowned by rainy season floods.
  In areas of highest density of the highlands there are no wild pigs and a few boars are kept for breeding.
  Feral pigs churn up soil and uproot native plant species, denuding landscapes and promoting weed growth.
  State and government agencies are also investigating whether wild pigs might play a role in spreading disease to crops that reach humans' plates.
  Wild pigs, porcupines and rats, which are the main predators in paddy fields, are kept away using traps.
  Wild pigs include the warthog, giant forest hog and red river hog.
  Pigs are hardy animals and prolific breeders, and in addition to the domestic animals reared on farms, nearly four million wild pigs now roam the United States.
  The trees' seeds are dispersed by birds, wild pigs, agoutis, bats, and monkeys, as well as by wind and water.
  Golden eagles are also being relocated to the mainland, an option not available for wild pigs, which the state designates as pests.
  From what scientists can tell, their preferred diet is deer and wild pigs called peccaries.
  Apparently rural hunters use dogs to hunt down and kill feral pigs.
  Such holidays occur after good hunts or when large game animals, such as an elephant or a wild pig, have been captured.
  Hunting provided most food: deer, wild cattle, elk, wild pig, pine martens, red fox, and beavers.
2. 1.2North American A young pig; a piglet.
  Example sentencesExamples
  In contrast, iron is well recognized as being necessary for the young pig and must be administered within a few days of birth.
  He performed his experiments especially on monkeys and on young pigs and described the instruments and methods used in experimenting.
  There are several physiological changes that occur in the digestive tract of the young pig from birth to eight weeks of age.
  Major challenges of the young weanling pig involve the environment, health, and nutritional conditions.
  Nursing the sow and consuming colostrum shortly after birth is critical for pigs of any birth weight.
  Young pigs are kept in semi-darkness to minimise fighting and aggression caused through frustration due to their appalling conditions.
  Consequently, the young pig must be provided a large amount of energy from fat or carbohydrate in the colostrum in order to survive.
  For example, younger grower pigs have a high rate of bone growth and therefore have a higher calcium and phosphorus requirement.
  Sprinkling the starter diet or a small quantity of oat groats on the mat close to the feeder allows the pigs to become acquainted with the feeder.
  We have 300 sows and 200 young pigs which are being reared on the farm.
  Body tissues with the highest rate of formation in younger pigs are bone and muscle.
3. 1.3mass noun The flesh of a pig as food.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Entry fee includes green fee, caddy, European and Thai food, and pig on a spit.
  In fact we can buy a ranch and eat suckling pig, if food is what bothers you and dress up for the carnival.
  "The team that was running the pig meat business is virtually intact.
  Belly of pork is the kitchen's star turn, a tender piece of pig scented with the pungent breath of garlic flowers - tube of crackling included.
  This huge chunk of pig leg was deliciously tender and moist served with steamed spinach, cherries and their reduction.
  He said pig meat accounts for almost half of all meat consumed within the EU.
  The food, which was served, consisted of roast pig, beef slices, as well as roast and mashed potatoes and provided all the energy for a long night's dancing into the early hours.
  This is a cold appetiser, with roast suckling pig, sliced beef, jelly fish and ham.
  Madonna's wedding meal was a truly mediaeval feast with a roast pig on a spit.
  Most of the population seemed to be pottering around the streets and there were dozens of stalls groaning under the weight of roast pigs.
  The Thursday plat du jour is suckling pig cooked to crackly perfection, with a smoky hint of apples.
  I don't eat pig meat and I don't drink any more.
  There is a tradition of roasted suckling pig with a red egg in its snout.
  Galicians specialize in trencherman food: suckling pig, grilled skate, pulpy octopus speckled with sea salt and paprika.
  Pork and other pig products - ham, bacon, and sausages - are staples of the Castilian diet.
  The crackling roast suckling pig may divide your table; it's nasty to some, but to others, each bite echoes the sound of maracas.
  In terms of food, it is usually a roast suckling pig and rice, but it can even be a sandwich.
2informal A greedy, dirty, or unpleasant person.
I bet he's scoffed them all, greedy pig
Example sentencesExamples
- She'd come close to hitting him except that he'd finished with such a charming smile that she couldn't stay irritated at him for being a chauvinist pig.
- He was a greedy pig, and he should never have given in.
- Maybe I'm a chauvinist pig, but you know, the women in my life have never given me any reason to think otherwise.
- Girls get backhanded by misogynist male pigs, women get into fistfights with each other, old flames line up on opposite sides of the battlefield.
- Thirty years later, feminists referred to men as ‘male chauvinist pigs.’
- Almost down to his last low, although this time round, he had been such a greedy pig.
- Some of the lads embrace their new role as master of the house more enthusiastically than others, but are they really capable of playing the male chauvinist pig for the full four weeks?
- It's in my nature to be a greedy fat-sucking pig.
- Happily, in most cases, the gentlemen are not chauvinist pigs either, and both parents share the duties of feeding the chicks when they hatch.
- He couldn't help but admire how much more of a fat, greedy, oafish pig his uncle had become in his absence.
- He deserved it anyway, leaving me to be trampled on by those male pigs!
- I mean, a male chauvinist pig isn't born, he's made, and more and more of them are being made by women.
- Go ahead: call me an insensitive male chauvinist pig.
- At least I know he's not a sexist chauvinistic pig.
- A devotee of the sexual revolution, he remained in many ways an unreconstructed, 1950s male chauvinist pig.
Synonyms
glutton, guzzler, gobbler, gorger, gourmand, gourmandizer, binge eater
informal greedy pig, hog, greedy guts, guts
British informal gannet
Northern Irish informal gorb
brute, monster, devil
scoundrel, rogue, wretch
informal bastard, beast, louse, swine, rat, son of a bitch, s.o.b., low life
British informal toerag, scrote
informal, dated bounder, rotter, heel, stinker, blighter
dated cad
vulgar slang shit, sod, bugger
3derogatory A police officer.
were the pigs there when the windows were smashed or not?
Example sentencesExamples
- Sure, you might call the guy who is a pig a pig, but not all policemen.
- And a man who called a policeman a pig had to stand for two hours with a hog in a pen set up in a town centre.
- At about the same time, people who disliked the police began calling them pigs.
- All police are pigs because they make the conscious decision to join an organization which is, basically, legal GANGSTERISM.
- He's known for unusual sentences, like the time he ordered a man who called a police officer a pig to spend a couple of hours penned up with the real thing.
4An oblong mass of iron or lead from a smelting furnace.
See also pig iron
Example sentencesExamples
- Lead ore, pig lead, timber and chert stones from Flintshire were the other significant cargoes.
- In order to make malleable wrought iron, the iron pigs were reheated and forged into red hot iron masses called blooms.
- The French iron industry, together with the Italian, came to excel in engineering rather than in the manufacture of pig and cast-iron.
- One indication of its importance is the incidence of lead pigs or ingots, many stamped with the emperor's name or that of a lessee, which have been found across Britain.
5A 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.
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- Depending upon function, different pig designs are used.
- I thought the miniature pig laser tests we did for NASA on the ISS were crazy.
- The pig is forced down the pipeline by hydrostatic or pneumatic pressure that is applied behind the pig.

verbpigs, pigging, pigged pɪɡpɪɡ

[no object]

1informal Gorge oneself with food.
lovesick people pig out on chocolate
Example sentencesExamples
- I've been trying to eat properly recently, as I am fighting the proverbial battle of the bulge, but over the last two days, I have been pigging out!
- Any more of this Zen acceptance stuff and I'd sit about all day blissfully pigging out on junk food and getting obese.
- And, as the whole pack contained only 280 calories, there were no guilt issues about pigging out.
- A couple of hours later after the girls had pigged out on food, watched a movie, and talked for over an hour, Abby was sound asleep on the floor.
- Well, after we got through pigging out, we all sat around, too stuffed to move.
- She rapidly scanned the room to see if she knew anyone and in the corner of the room where she was sitting that morning, she spotted her brother and Alex still pigging out on food.
- And as if that wasn't enough, she pigs out on a raspberry and almond tart too.
- As soon as they got their food they started pigging out as the man had said to do.
- The idea is that if we remove those toxins that have built up in our bodies from bad diet, pigging out, late nights, stressful lifestyles and pollutants in the atmosphere, we will find health and vitality.
- The three girls danced and laughed and Jenn pigged out on the food.
- My sister-in-law, who is a qualified nutritionist, was impressed by the fact that instead of my usual bacon, sausage and egg for breakfast I was now pigging out on fat-free yoghurts and masses of fruit.
- Since the last time I was here, the Hotel had added sausage, bacon and eggs to their buffet breakfast and we lingered, savoured or pigged out if you prefer.
- The two of them were in Paige's dorm room pigging out on junk food watching television.
- Alyssa and I were in the hotel room pigging out on Chinese food.
- We shared traditional Bulgarian, Russian, and American foods, and pigged out for four hours.
- Fortunately he gave up and drove off, leaving us to enjoy the rest of the night pigging out on western style food and booze and dodgy films.
- The guests stayed a few hours, and they took turns playing video games, they all pigged out on junk food, Eon showed the group his latest paintings, and Melanie read them her latest chapter of her book.
- We went to a nice restaurant where I pigged out on seafood.
- They sat around Denise's mom dinning table and pigged out on as much food as they could stuff inside their mouths.
- Suppertime had been Dad's favorite time of the day and Mom had always loved cooking great things for him and they used to sit across the table from each other just enjoying the moment as us kids pigged out on the food.
Synonyms
stuff, cram, fill
2informal Crowd together with other people in disorderly or dirty conditions.
he didn't approve of the proposal to pig it in the studio
Example sentencesExamples
- After years of separation, their paths cross only to find out that Anna is living a happy married life with two children, whereas Raoul has become a porter with a family of six children who are forced to pig it as they cannot afford proper housing.
- So long as they pigged it with him and were willing to share his lot he was not unkind to them, unless he happened by some accident to achieve drunkenness.
- 'The men were prepared to pig it anyhow, and a few cubic feet of space didn't matter - such was their spirit.'
- Having no offer of beds, I returned to the schooner, and we pigged it out in the least miserable way we could.
- In Bolton they pigged it in a wretched artisans' dwelling in Davenport Street. The project was none the less immensely successful.
3(of a sow) give birth to piglets; farrow.
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- The other sow pigged, and has raised a lovely litter of 6.
- If their sow pigged or their hens breed chickens, they cannot afford to eat them but must sell them to make their rent.
- The patron of the hospital was held in such esteem, that when any person's sow pigged, one was set apart, and fed as fat as they could make it, to give to the brethren of St. Anthony.
4Operate a pig within an oil or gas pipeline.
they will carry out all trenching and pigging
Example sentencesExamples
- And once you've pigged, or maintenance pigged, the pipeline, then you run a smart pig through there, and a smart pig measures the wall thickness of the pipe so that you can find little weaknesses before they rupture.
- The purpose of operational pigging is to obtain and maintain efficiency of the pipeline to be pigged.
- If the pipeline is to be cleaned mechanically or "pigged" the pipeline size may dictate the minimum valve bore or the valve configuration.

Phrases

bleed like a (stuck) pig

Bleed copiously.
Example sentencesExamples
- The tattoo was done in about an hour, even though I bled like a stuck pig.
- He hit me on the top of the head with the gun and I was bleeding like a pig and lost the sight in my left eye from the blood.
- The witnesses were more than impressed by the officer who carried on stoically despite bleeding like a stuck pig.
- Her ear is split in two and she is bleeding like a stuck pig…
- God Jesse… you were bleeding like a stuck pig… Luckily, Damien has the same blood type as you.
- He sighed, wearily, and looked up, to assure the person that he was fine, he bled like a pig every day.
- You were unconscious, badly injured, half-dead, and bleeding like a stuck pig.
- The arrow had to cut some big arteries because he bled like a stuck pig.
- ‘I'm bleeding like a stuck pig,’ I mumbled, walking quickly as fast as I could to the ladies’.
- I can't cut my boy's hair, I nicked his ear last time and I felt awful, it was the tiniest cut but he bled like a stuck pig.

in pig

(of a sow) pregnant.
Example sentencesExamples
- Some breeders will leave the boar in with the sow until they can feel that the sow is in pig.
- A piglet from the porcherie costs FRw 5000 (10) but the fatted pig can sell for FRw 15000 or a little more if a sow is in pig.
- The first indication that a sow is ‘in pig’ is failing to come back in season after being mated.

in a pig's eye

informal Expressing scornful disbelief at a statement.
‘Under other circumstances, I think we could have been friends.’ ‘In a pig's eye,’ Susan thought
Example sentencesExamples
- The down-home narrative is folksy and fun to read aloud, particularly Granny's refrain, "In a pig's eye! My, oh, my!"
- In a pig's eye is rhyming slang for lie, and usually means Nonsense!

make a pig of oneself

informal Overeat.
we made pigs of ourselves, with too many sweets
Example sentencesExamples
- Stella comments that Stanley is making a pig of himself with the greasy food at the table.
- If you want to go whole-hog on steak without making a pig of yourself, try Belgian Blue beef.
- If I tempt you with ice-cream knowing that you will renege on your diet as a result, am I partly responsible for your making a pig of yourself?
- The first side involves Stan making a pig of himself.
- It's not all making a pig of yourself, though, with five golden-beached islands just a few miles offshore.
- Excuse me for making a pig of myself, but I've only had a sandwich at the wheel of the car.
- Looks like someone's going to make a pig of herself soon.
- Madame however, could not resist the thought of the bread and butter pudding with custard, and made a pig of herself, finishing with a wide smile, while saying, ‘Delicious!’
- We made our way to the dining room, where Kevin was already making a pig of himself.
- I couldn't help but make a pig of myself and eat them by the handful.
Synonyms
drink too much, eat too much, overeat, drink like a fish, overdrink, be greedy, be immoderate, be intemperate, overindulge oneself, overdo it, not know when to stop, drink to excess, eat to excess, go to excess, gorge, gorge oneself, surfeit, guzzle, feast

make a pig's ear of

informal Handle ineptly.
only adults make a pig's ear of it when they start fishing
Example sentencesExamples
- It charged councillors with having squandered the windfall receipts from the flotation of the municipally-owned telephone company three years ago and making a pig's ear of its housing policy.
- OK, I'm sorry, I've made a pig's ear of your point.
- Having said that, you could give the same fellow his choice of angles and he'd still make a pig's ear of it.
- Perhaps the one point we agree on is that the present government has made a pig's ear of dealing with asylum applications.
- There are no defenders but Park still makes a pig's ear of it and Barry saves.
- Sadly I made a pig's ear of it and had a bit of trouble surfacing.
- ‘Football's a cut-throat industry and you do get criticism when you make a pig's ear of it,’ said Arthur.
- Now they are in danger of making a pig's ear of government policy on health.
- Let's just hope they don't make a pig's ear of it.
- While helping out plump, inhibited city accountant Albert with his love life, he makes a pig's ear of his own.
Synonyms
bungle, mess up, make a mess of, botch, spoil, mar, ruin, mishandle, mismanage

on the pig's back

informal Living a life of ease and luxury; in a very fortunate situation.
Example sentencesExamples
- The bookmaking company is also on the pig's back, having donated all profits from the betting to the appeal.
- He is on the pig's back - technically or figuratively, I do not know.
- Those fortunate ones who own such ground are sitting on the pig's back, or more correctly on a veritable goldmine.
- They'll be handing out press releases like medals, each bringing more news as to why we're all on the pig's back as a result of their department's spending settlement.
- He's on the pig's back, sure he'll top the poll.

a pig in a poke

Something that is bought or accepted without first being seen or assessed.
the unwary were apt to buy a pig in the poke
Example sentencesExamples
- I'm afraid I can't offer much information on the state of the company - they haven't spoken with me for ages so it's a bit of a pig in a poke.
- I would like to know more about the whole thing and I don't intend voting for a pig in a poke.
- The former mayor said: ‘People are being asked to vote for a pig in a poke - it is all so uncertain.’
- It was obvious to many observers, that when the county council went for the Cocklebury Road site, they bought a pig in a poke.
- And with a court that's divided 5-4 on so many of those cases, we're not willing to buy a pig in a poke.
- For most people, buying an air ticket is buying a pig in a poke.
- As far as I can see we're being asked to buy a pig in a poke.
- Let us hope that they recognise a pig in a poke when it is offered to them.
- Managers sometimes bought a pig in a poke - not fully understanding what they were getting.
- To some extent the opposition has bought a pig in a poke here.

pig in the python

A sharp statistical increase represented as a bulge in an otherwise level pattern, used especially with reference to the baby-boom generation regarded as having a gradual effect on consumer spending, society, etc. as they grow older.
Example sentencesExamples
- The current annual deficit of $1.5 trillion does not even address the "pig in the python," baby boomer, demographic squeeze on resources that looms straight ahead.
- Boomers are still the pig in the python of the nation's population and, for keen-eyed investors, the cohort to watch.

a pig of a —

informal Used to describe something unpleasant or difficult.
it's a pig of a job
Example sentencesExamples
- And I know I've got to add the awards section into the navigation too - that'll be a pig of a job, for one day when I'm bored comatose or something.
- The only shame about it all was the fact only 280 people turned up on what was, granted, a pig of a day.
- Some farmers won't let it be a pig of a Christmas in more ways than one.
- Pinning everything on the Australian Open, he lost in the first round in a pig of a match.
- God forbid such a pig of a man should have become Prime Minister.

pigs might (or can) fly

Used ironically to express disbelief.
‘Maybe he's trying to change.’ ‘And maybe pigs can fly.’
Example sentencesExamples
- Well, if people believe that, they believe that pigs can fly.
- Today was exactly like yesterday and to think tomorrow will be any different is the hope that pigs might fly.
- ‘And pigs can fly,’ Stevens said sarcastically.
- However, the heavily disguised Greenpeace Mercedes Benz shows just when they think the world will stop polluting itself - when pigs might fly!
- As the Police are to get their 76 per cent increase, maybe we will see a local bobby walking the beat and incidents such as these would be totally avoidable, then again pigs might fly.
- She rolled her eyes, ‘Right and pigs can fly.
- The Truth might be there - undeniable and incontrovertible - but there'll still be people who'll say the world is flat, that the moon is made of green cheese and that pigs can fly.
- Shrugging his shoulder, he replied easily, ‘I'll save you the day pigs can fly.’
- Well, that was the theory, but they forgot that pigs might fly too.
- Ryan looked at her incredulously ‘I'll let you and your companion go when pigs can fly!’

put lipstick on a pig

informal Make superficial changes to something generally regarded with dislike or disfavour in a fruitless attempt to make it more appealing.
you can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig
any attempt to revise the bill would amount to putting lipstick on a pig
Example sentencesExamples
- No matter how "green" they seem, it's like putting lipstick on a pig – they still can't hide their ugliness.
- He likened their effect on the team to "putting lipstick on a pig".
- I had to put lipstick on a pig.
- They call it putting lipstick on a pig because these barracks are so old.
- The one GOP congressman compared the changes to "putting lipstick on a pig."
- FBI officials say moving its old system online was too costly, akin to "putting lipstick on a pig."
- He also said he wants the focus to be on the issues not on, quote, "lipstick on a pig stuff."
- We're not trying to sugarcoat things, or put lipstick on a pig, or anything like that.
- You can put lipstick on a pig, but you can't call it a lady.
- Boos and cheers greeted the announcement in the meeting; one heckler called it 'Lipstick on a pig!'
- It's essentially putting lipstick on a pig and you still end up with a bad trade deal at the end of the day.

squeal (or yell) like a stuck pig

Squeal or yell loudly and shrilly.
Example sentencesExamples
- She incessantly talks loudly to herself in high-pitched screeching cartoony voices, makes what I can only describe as ‘squirrel noises,’ and squeals like a stuck pig whenever she gets an e-mail/fax/etc.
- All of them, except one who is… um, slightly overweight, jumped into the building through the window, headfirst, while our fat friend was squealing like a stuck pig, ‘I can't climb up!
- The execrable Mr. Cole squeals like a stuck pig when the shoe is on the other foot.
- Andrew was squealing like a stuck pig after last year's $18 a week rise for the nation's working poor.
- I moaned about feeling sweaty so he shut me up by turning the hose on me and making me squeal like a stuck pig.
- One scene in particular had me squealing like a stuck pig from the awkwardness of it.
- You can't have someone who has been squealing like a stuck pig about these proposals to increase shareholder power chairing the country's largest shareholder.
- The chorus mostly natters in a monotone, the soprano squeals like a stuck pig, the percussion instruments gurgle solemnly, the string soloists noodle, and the conductor stands in the middle of it all sending out anguished conductorial signals.
- She jumped back in surprise when the figure squealed like a stuck pig and began to race around the room on all fours, scattering its filth all over the place.
- The coffee couldn't have been hot enough for him to clutch his throat and squeal like a stuck pig.

sweat like a pig

informal Sweat profusely.
this priest outfit makes you sweat like a pig
Example sentencesExamples
- It is a non-air-conditioned one, and none of the windows are open, so I'll be sweating like a pig for fifteen minutes.
- After ten minutes of this I was sweating like a pig in a sauna, and soon I was aching all over.
- Then I started sweating like a pig on the train because there was no air conditioning and it was in the high 20's.
- He said it seemed that I had a nightmare because I was sweating like a pig.
- His face is a beetroot and he's sweating like a pig.
- I only had half an hour before checking in and I was sweating like a pig, so I decided to wait at the hotel.
- No, I'm sweating like a pig, can you turn on the air please?
- But what happens is that you put on your nice clothes, then by the time you walk up the 75 steps you are sweating like a pig.
- I'm wearing shorts and a t-shirt, carrying a backpack, and sweating like a pig.
- I got there just as the train pulled in and stood in the doorway, sweating like a pig, wishing someone would open a window.

Derivatives

piglike

adjective

Agoutis are smaller than their relatives the piglike pacas and larger than squirrels, which they resemble.
Example sentencesExamples
- The most intriguing thing about him were his small, piglike eyes that were nearly swallowed up by the large brow on his pudgy face.
- Too, this unique region also hosts an impressive array of other wildlife, including blacktail prairie dogs, gray foxes, and piglike javelinas.
- For the next 80 million years, synapsids evolved into various wolflike and bearlike predators, as well as into an array of peculiar piglike herbivores.

pigling

noun

I went down each morning to say my hellos to the pigs and the people: cute little wee black piglings and mighty great boars and snufflers.

Origin

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

The word pig appears in Old English only once, the usual word being swine. In the Middle Ages pig at first meant specifically ‘a young pig’, as it still does in North America. Observations such as pigs might fly had a 17th-century parallel in pigs fly with their tails forward. An early user of the modern form was Lewis Carroll in 1865 in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: ‘ “I've a right to think,” said Alice sharply…“Just about as much right,” said the Duchess, “as pigs have to fly.” ’ In a pig in a poke, poke (Middle English) means ‘a small sack or bag’, now found mainly in Scottish English. The British phrase to make a pig's ear out of, ‘to handle ineptly’, probably derives from the proverb you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, recorded from the 16th century. In the children's game pig (or piggy) in the middle, first recorded in the Folk-Lore Journal of 1887, two people throw a ball to each other while a third tries to intercept it. This is behind the use of pig in the middle for a person who is in an awkward situation between two others. Piggyback has been around since the mid 16th century, but the origin of the expression has been lost. Early forms tend to be something like ‘pick-a-pack’ which seems to have been changed by folk etymology to the form we now have. See also hog

Rhymes

big, brig, dig, fig, gig, grig, jig, lig, prig, rig, snig, sprig, swig, tig, trig, twig, Whig, wig

Definition of pig in US English:

pig

nounpiɡpɪɡ

1An omnivorous domesticated hoofed mammal with sparse bristly hair and a flat snout for rooting in the soil, kept for its meat.
Sus domesticus (with numerous varieties), family Suidae (the pig family), descended from the wild boar and domesticated over 8,000 years ago. The pig family also includes the warthog and babirusa, but the similar peccaries are placed in their own family
Example sentencesExamples
- The telling factor could be if the disease gets into pig herds.
- Hair of pigs and horses are widely used in rugs and upholstery stuffings.
- I researched all the farmers' markets and spent time on a rare breed pig farm in Cumbria.
- Remember to stress that they cannot keep the pot-bellied pig.
- These features correlate with the more or less omnivorous diet of pigs and peccaries.
- But all cattle, sheep, pigs and goats will be banned from the show site.
- They first introduced horses, cattle, sheep, goats, pigs, and domestic poultry.
- The hides of cattle, sheep, pigs, goats and deer, and perhaps horses, were all used.
- With the advent of farming in the Neolithic, a number of animal species were domesticated, starting with sheep, goats, pigs, and cattle.
- The animals that were kept domestically were much the same as today, sheep, pigs, cattle, goats and a few horses.
- When the programme is completed, it will have encompassed more than 1,200 pig herds.
- Supplies of meat will be affected as cattle, pigs and sheep remain wherever they are.
- In addition, the water has been contaminated by discharge from local pig farms.
- Settlements began to encourage the growth of plants such as barley and lentils and the domestication of pigs, sheep and goats.
- Foot and mouth can affect cattle, pigs, sheep and goats, leading to the development of blisters in the mouth causing increased salivation, and lameness.
- The disease can affect cattle, sheep, pigs, goats and deer (cloven hoofed species).
- Almost everyone worked with cattle, pigs, sheep, poultry and other domestic livestock.
- Besides this, Spanish cattle, pigs, sheep, and goats introduced European meats and fats, milk, butter, and cheese to the Mexican diet.
- With the help of some farmers around, we kept two pigs fed on our leftovers.
- Cloned animals now include five species of mammals: sheep, goats, pigs, mice and cows - but all come with a dubious safety record.
Synonyms
hog, boar, sow, porker, swine, piglet
1. 1.1 A wild animal of the pig family.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Ecologically, they range from forest dwellers, such as wild pigs and chevrotains, to dominant large herbivores on grasslands.
  In Missouri last week state wildlife officials publicly urged the nearly 500,000 licensed deer hunters to kill feral pigs too.
  Apparently rural hunters use dogs to hunt down and kill feral pigs.
  Golden eagles are also being relocated to the mainland, an option not available for wild pigs, which the state designates as pests.
  Wild pigs, porcupines and rats, which are the main predators in paddy fields, are kept away using traps.
  Less than 25 percent of those eggs would hatch in the wild, with the rest eaten by monitor lizards and feral wild pigs or drowned by rainy season floods.
  Such holidays occur after good hunts or when large game animals, such as an elephant or a wild pig, have been captured.
  Other creatures can also flourish there, including quail, jackrabbits, and small, wild pigs called javelinas.
  We enjoy long walks on the trails searching for the perfect walking stick, tracking deer, wild pigs and other animals.
  Catlike predators with long tails, fossas hunt everything from lemurs and mice to wild pigs.
  Hunting provided most food: deer, wild cattle, elk, wild pig, pine martens, red fox, and beavers.
  State and government agencies are also investigating whether wild pigs might play a role in spreading disease to crops that reach humans' plates.
  Feral pigs churn up soil and uproot native plant species, denuding landscapes and promoting weed growth.
  In warmer periods the reindeer and mammoths would withdraw northwards, but they would give place to deer and wild pigs, which prefer a wooded environment.
  The trees' seeds are dispersed by birds, wild pigs, agoutis, bats, and monkeys, as well as by wind and water.
  In areas of highest density of the highlands there are no wild pigs and a few boars are kept for breeding.
  From what scientists can tell, their preferred diet is deer and wild pigs called peccaries.
  Pigs are hardy animals and prolific breeders, and in addition to the domestic animals reared on farms, nearly four million wild pigs now roam the United States.
  Because of the rich diversity of this region, Nicobari pigeons, wild pigs, monitor lizards, tortoises, and crocodiles thrive there.
  Wild pigs include the warthog, giant forest hog and red river hog.
2. 1.2North American A young pig; a piglet.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Young pigs are kept in semi-darkness to minimise fighting and aggression caused through frustration due to their appalling conditions.
  Nursing the sow and consuming colostrum shortly after birth is critical for pigs of any birth weight.
  Consequently, the young pig must be provided a large amount of energy from fat or carbohydrate in the colostrum in order to survive.
  Major challenges of the young weanling pig involve the environment, health, and nutritional conditions.
  For example, younger grower pigs have a high rate of bone growth and therefore have a higher calcium and phosphorus requirement.
  He performed his experiments especially on monkeys and on young pigs and described the instruments and methods used in experimenting.
  Body tissues with the highest rate of formation in younger pigs are bone and muscle.
  In contrast, iron is well recognized as being necessary for the young pig and must be administered within a few days of birth.
  We have 300 sows and 200 young pigs which are being reared on the farm.
  Sprinkling the starter diet or a small quantity of oat groats on the mat close to the feeder allows the pigs to become acquainted with the feeder.
  There are several physiological changes that occur in the digestive tract of the young pig from birth to eight weeks of age.
3. 1.3 The flesh of a pig, especially a young one, as food.
  Example sentencesExamples
  In fact we can buy a ranch and eat suckling pig, if food is what bothers you and dress up for the carnival.
  He said pig meat accounts for almost half of all meat consumed within the EU.
  This is a cold appetiser, with roast suckling pig, sliced beef, jelly fish and ham.
  In terms of food, it is usually a roast suckling pig and rice, but it can even be a sandwich.
  "The team that was running the pig meat business is virtually intact.
  Entry fee includes green fee, caddy, European and Thai food, and pig on a spit.
  The crackling roast suckling pig may divide your table; it's nasty to some, but to others, each bite echoes the sound of maracas.
  This huge chunk of pig leg was deliciously tender and moist served with steamed spinach, cherries and their reduction.
  Madonna's wedding meal was a truly mediaeval feast with a roast pig on a spit.
  The food, which was served, consisted of roast pig, beef slices, as well as roast and mashed potatoes and provided all the energy for a long night's dancing into the early hours.
  There is a tradition of roasted suckling pig with a red egg in its snout.
  Most of the population seemed to be pottering around the streets and there were dozens of stalls groaning under the weight of roast pigs.
  Pork and other pig products - ham, bacon, and sausages - are staples of the Castilian diet.
  The Thursday plat du jour is suckling pig cooked to crackly perfection, with a smoky hint of apples.
  I don't eat pig meat and I don't drink any more.
  Galicians specialize in trencherman food: suckling pig, grilled skate, pulpy octopus speckled with sea salt and paprika.
  Belly of pork is the kitchen's star turn, a tender piece of pig scented with the pungent breath of garlic flowers - tube of crackling included.
2informal A greedy, dirty, or unpleasant person.
you're such a pig when it comes to sleep
Example sentencesExamples
- It's in my nature to be a greedy fat-sucking pig.
- He deserved it anyway, leaving me to be trampled on by those male pigs!
- At least I know he's not a sexist chauvinistic pig.
- He was a greedy pig, and he should never have given in.
- Thirty years later, feminists referred to men as ‘male chauvinist pigs.’
- I mean, a male chauvinist pig isn't born, he's made, and more and more of them are being made by women.
- He couldn't help but admire how much more of a fat, greedy, oafish pig his uncle had become in his absence.
- Happily, in most cases, the gentlemen are not chauvinist pigs either, and both parents share the duties of feeding the chicks when they hatch.
- Maybe I'm a chauvinist pig, but you know, the women in my life have never given me any reason to think otherwise.
- Go ahead: call me an insensitive male chauvinist pig.
- A devotee of the sexual revolution, he remained in many ways an unreconstructed, 1950s male chauvinist pig.
- Girls get backhanded by misogynist male pigs, women get into fistfights with each other, old flames line up on opposite sides of the battlefield.
- Some of the lads embrace their new role as master of the house more enthusiastically than others, but are they really capable of playing the male chauvinist pig for the full four weeks?
- Almost down to his last low, although this time round, he had been such a greedy pig.
- She'd come close to hitting him except that he'd finished with such a charming smile that she couldn't stay irritated at him for being a chauvinist pig.
Synonyms
glutton, guzzler, gobbler, gorger, gourmand, gourmandizer, binge eater
brute, monster, devil
3derogatory A police officer.
Example sentencesExamples
- He's known for unusual sentences, like the time he ordered a man who called a police officer a pig to spend a couple of hours penned up with the real thing.
- At about the same time, people who disliked the police began calling them pigs.
- Sure, you might call the guy who is a pig a pig, but not all policemen.
- And a man who called a policeman a pig had to stand for two hours with a hog in a pen set up in a town centre.
- All police are pigs because they make the conscious decision to join an organization which is, basically, legal GANGSTERISM.
4An oblong mass of iron or lead from a smelting furnace.
See also pig iron
Example sentencesExamples
- One indication of its importance is the incidence of lead pigs or ingots, many stamped with the emperor's name or that of a lessee, which have been found across Britain.
- Lead ore, pig lead, timber and chert stones from Flintshire were the other significant cargoes.
- In order to make malleable wrought iron, the iron pigs were reheated and forged into red hot iron masses called blooms.
- The French iron industry, together with the Italian, came to excel in engineering rather than in the manufacture of pig and cast-iron.
5A 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.
Example sentencesExamples
- Depending upon function, different pig designs are used.
- The pig is forced down the pipeline by hydrostatic or pneumatic pressure that is applied behind the pig.
- I thought the miniature pig laser tests we did for NASA on the ISS were crazy.

verbpiɡpɪɡ

[no object]

1informal Gorge oneself with food.
don't pig out on chips before dinner
Example sentencesExamples
- Any more of this Zen acceptance stuff and I'd sit about all day blissfully pigging out on junk food and getting obese.
- She rapidly scanned the room to see if she knew anyone and in the corner of the room where she was sitting that morning, she spotted her brother and Alex still pigging out on food.
- My sister-in-law, who is a qualified nutritionist, was impressed by the fact that instead of my usual bacon, sausage and egg for breakfast I was now pigging out on fat-free yoghurts and masses of fruit.
- And, as the whole pack contained only 280 calories, there were no guilt issues about pigging out.
- I've been trying to eat properly recently, as I am fighting the proverbial battle of the bulge, but over the last two days, I have been pigging out!
- The two of them were in Paige's dorm room pigging out on junk food watching television.
- Alyssa and I were in the hotel room pigging out on Chinese food.
- The guests stayed a few hours, and they took turns playing video games, they all pigged out on junk food, Eon showed the group his latest paintings, and Melanie read them her latest chapter of her book.
- Suppertime had been Dad's favorite time of the day and Mom had always loved cooking great things for him and they used to sit across the table from each other just enjoying the moment as us kids pigged out on the food.
- We went to a nice restaurant where I pigged out on seafood.
- We shared traditional Bulgarian, Russian, and American foods, and pigged out for four hours.
- The idea is that if we remove those toxins that have built up in our bodies from bad diet, pigging out, late nights, stressful lifestyles and pollutants in the atmosphere, we will find health and vitality.
- Well, after we got through pigging out, we all sat around, too stuffed to move.
- Fortunately he gave up and drove off, leaving us to enjoy the rest of the night pigging out on western style food and booze and dodgy films.
- A couple of hours later after the girls had pigged out on food, watched a movie, and talked for over an hour, Abby was sound asleep on the floor.
- The three girls danced and laughed and Jenn pigged out on the food.
- They sat around Denise's mom dinning table and pigged out on as much food as they could stuff inside their mouths.
- Since the last time I was here, the Hotel had added sausage, bacon and eggs to their buffet breakfast and we lingered, savoured or pigged out if you prefer.
- And as if that wasn't enough, she pigs out on a raspberry and almond tart too.
- As soon as they got their food they started pigging out as the man had said to do.
Synonyms
stuff, cram, fill
2informal Crowd together with other people in disorderly or dirty conditions.
he and Irving pigged it for years in a shoebox of an apartment
I have no intention of pigging with that bunch for another day
Example sentencesExamples
- So long as they pigged it with him and were willing to share his lot he was not unkind to them, unless he happened by some accident to achieve drunkenness.
- 'The men were prepared to pig it anyhow, and a few cubic feet of space didn't matter - such was their spirit.'
- Having no offer of beds, I returned to the schooner, and we pigged it out in the least miserable way we could.
- In Bolton they pigged it in a wretched artisans' dwelling in Davenport Street. The project was none the less immensely successful.
- After years of separation, their paths cross only to find out that Anna is living a happy married life with two children, whereas Raoul has become a porter with a family of six children who are forced to pig it as they cannot afford proper housing.
3(of a sow) give birth to piglets; farrow.
Example sentencesExamples
- The other sow pigged, and has raised a lovely litter of 6.
- The patron of the hospital was held in such esteem, that when any person's sow pigged, one was set apart, and fed as fat as they could make it, to give to the brethren of St. Anthony.
- If their sow pigged or their hens breed chickens, they cannot afford to eat them but must sell them to make their rent.
4Operate a pig within an oil or gas pipeline.
Example sentencesExamples
- And once you've pigged, or maintenance pigged, the pipeline, then you run a smart pig through there, and a smart pig measures the wall thickness of the pipe so that you can find little weaknesses before they rupture.
- If the pipeline is to be cleaned mechanically or "pigged" the pipeline size may dictate the minimum valve bore or the valve configuration.
- The purpose of operational pigging is to obtain and maintain efficiency of the pipeline to be pigged.

Phrases

bleed like a (stuck) pig

Bleed copiously.
Example sentencesExamples
- God Jesse… you were bleeding like a stuck pig… Luckily, Damien has the same blood type as you.
- I can't cut my boy's hair, I nicked his ear last time and I felt awful, it was the tiniest cut but he bled like a stuck pig.
- The tattoo was done in about an hour, even though I bled like a stuck pig.
- The arrow had to cut some big arteries because he bled like a stuck pig.
- You were unconscious, badly injured, half-dead, and bleeding like a stuck pig.
- ‘I'm bleeding like a stuck pig,’ I mumbled, walking quickly as fast as I could to the ladies’.
- He sighed, wearily, and looked up, to assure the person that he was fine, he bled like a pig every day.
- He hit me on the top of the head with the gun and I was bleeding like a pig and lost the sight in my left eye from the blood.
- The witnesses were more than impressed by the officer who carried on stoically despite bleeding like a stuck pig.
- Her ear is split in two and she is bleeding like a stuck pig…

in pig

(of a sow) pregnant.
Example sentencesExamples
- The first indication that a sow is ‘in pig’ is failing to come back in season after being mated.
- A piglet from the porcherie costs FRw 5000 (10) but the fatted pig can sell for FRw 15000 or a little more if a sow is in pig.
- Some breeders will leave the boar in with the sow until they can feel that the sow is in pig.

in a pig's eye

informal Expressing scornful disbelief at a statement.
Example sentencesExamples
- In a pig's eye is rhyming slang for lie, and usually means Nonsense!
- The down-home narrative is folksy and fun to read aloud, particularly Granny's refrain, "In a pig's eye! My, oh, my!"

make a pig of oneself

informal Overeat; eat more than one's share.
Example sentencesExamples
- Looks like someone's going to make a pig of herself soon.
- I couldn't help but make a pig of myself and eat them by the handful.
- Stella comments that Stanley is making a pig of himself with the greasy food at the table.
- Madame however, could not resist the thought of the bread and butter pudding with custard, and made a pig of herself, finishing with a wide smile, while saying, ‘Delicious!’
- Excuse me for making a pig of myself, but I've only had a sandwich at the wheel of the car.
- If you want to go whole-hog on steak without making a pig of yourself, try Belgian Blue beef.
- We made our way to the dining room, where Kevin was already making a pig of himself.
- If I tempt you with ice-cream knowing that you will renege on your diet as a result, am I partly responsible for your making a pig of yourself?
- It's not all making a pig of yourself, though, with five golden-beached islands just a few miles offshore.
- The first side involves Stan making a pig of himself.
Synonyms
drink too much, eat too much, overeat, drink like a fish, overdrink, be greedy, be immoderate, be intemperate, overindulge oneself, overdo it, not know when to stop, drink to excess, eat to excess, go to excess, gorge, gorge oneself, surfeit, guzzle, feast

make a pig's ear of

informal Handle ineptly.
Example sentencesExamples
- Sadly I made a pig's ear of it and had a bit of trouble surfacing.
- There are no defenders but Park still makes a pig's ear of it and Barry saves.
- OK, I'm sorry, I've made a pig's ear of your point.
- It charged councillors with having squandered the windfall receipts from the flotation of the municipally-owned telephone company three years ago and making a pig's ear of its housing policy.
- ‘Football's a cut-throat industry and you do get criticism when you make a pig's ear of it,’ said Arthur.
- Let's just hope they don't make a pig's ear of it.
- Perhaps the one point we agree on is that the present government has made a pig's ear of dealing with asylum applications.
- Now they are in danger of making a pig's ear of government policy on health.
- While helping out plump, inhibited city accountant Albert with his love life, he makes a pig's ear of his own.
- Having said that, you could give the same fellow his choice of angles and he'd still make a pig's ear of it.
Synonyms
bungle, mess up, make a mess of, botch, spoil, mar, ruin, mishandle, mismanage

a pig in a poke

Something that is bought or accepted without knowing its value or seeing it first.
Example sentencesExamples
- I would like to know more about the whole thing and I don't intend voting for a pig in a poke.
- For most people, buying an air ticket is buying a pig in a poke.
- As far as I can see we're being asked to buy a pig in a poke.
- The former mayor said: ‘People are being asked to vote for a pig in a poke - it is all so uncertain.’
- It was obvious to many observers, that when the county council went for the Cocklebury Road site, they bought a pig in a poke.
- Managers sometimes bought a pig in a poke - not fully understanding what they were getting.
- To some extent the opposition has bought a pig in a poke here.
- And with a court that's divided 5-4 on so many of those cases, we're not willing to buy a pig in a poke.
- Let us hope that they recognise a pig in a poke when it is offered to them.
- I'm afraid I can't offer much information on the state of the company - they haven't spoken with me for ages so it's a bit of a pig in a poke.

put lipstick on a pig

informal Make superficial changes to something regarded with dislike or disfavor in a fruitless attempt to make it more appealing.
any attempt to revise the bill would amount to putting lipstick on a pig
Example sentencesExamples
- I had to put lipstick on a pig.
- We're not trying to sugarcoat things, or put lipstick on a pig, or anything like that.
- No matter how "green" they seem, it's like putting lipstick on a pig – they still can't hide their ugliness.
- They call it putting lipstick on a pig because these barracks are so old.
- The one GOP congressman compared the changes to "putting lipstick on a pig."
- He also said he wants the focus to be on the issues not on, quote, "lipstick on a pig stuff."
- FBI officials say moving its old system online was too costly, akin to "putting lipstick on a pig."
- You can put lipstick on a pig, but you can't call it a lady.
- It's essentially putting lipstick on a pig and you still end up with a bad trade deal at the end of the day.
- Boos and cheers greeted the announcement in the meeting; one heckler called it 'Lipstick on a pig!'
- He likened their effect on the team to "putting lipstick on a pig".

sweat like a pig

informal Sweat profusely.
Example sentencesExamples
- Then I started sweating like a pig on the train because there was no air conditioning and it was in the high 20's.
- No, I'm sweating like a pig, can you turn on the air please?
- His face is a beetroot and he's sweating like a pig.
- I got there just as the train pulled in and stood in the doorway, sweating like a pig, wishing someone would open a window.
- It is a non-air-conditioned one, and none of the windows are open, so I'll be sweating like a pig for fifteen minutes.
- I only had half an hour before checking in and I was sweating like a pig, so I decided to wait at the hotel.
- He said it seemed that I had a nightmare because I was sweating like a pig.
- After ten minutes of this I was sweating like a pig in a sauna, and soon I was aching all over.
- I'm wearing shorts and a t-shirt, carrying a backpack, and sweating like a pig.
- But what happens is that you put on your nice clothes, then by the time you walk up the 75 steps you are sweating like a pig.

squeal like a pig

Squeal or yell loudly and shrilly.
Example sentencesExamples
- I moaned about feeling sweaty so he shut me up by turning the hose on me and making me squeal like a stuck pig.
- She jumped back in surprise when the figure squealed like a stuck pig and began to race around the room on all fours, scattering its filth all over the place.
- The chorus mostly natters in a monotone, the soprano squeals like a stuck pig, the percussion instruments gurgle solemnly, the string soloists noodle, and the conductor stands in the middle of it all sending out anguished conductorial signals.
- One scene in particular had me squealing like a stuck pig from the awkwardness of it.
- Andrew was squealing like a stuck pig after last year's $18 a week rise for the nation's working poor.
- The coffee couldn't have been hot enough for him to clutch his throat and squeal like a stuck pig.
- You can't have someone who has been squealing like a stuck pig about these proposals to increase shareholder power chairing the country's largest shareholder.
- The execrable Mr. Cole squeals like a stuck pig when the shoe is on the other foot.
- She incessantly talks loudly to herself in high-pitched screeching cartoony voices, makes what I can only describe as ‘squirrel noises,’ and squeals like a stuck pig whenever she gets an e-mail/fax/etc.
- All of them, except one who is… um, slightly overweight, jumped into the building through the window, headfirst, while our fat friend was squealing like a stuck pig, ‘I can't climb up!

Origin

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

单词	pig
释义	Definition of pig in English: pig nounPlural pigs pɪɡpɪɡ 1An omnivorous domesticated hoofed mammal with sparse bristly hair and a flat snout for rooting in the soil, kept for its meat. Sus domesticus, family Suidae (the pig family), descended from the wild boar and domesticated over 8,000 years ago. The pig family also includes the warthog and babirusa Example sentencesExamples The hides of cattle, sheep, pigs, goats and deer, and perhaps horses, were all used. Besides this, Spanish cattle, pigs, sheep, and goats introduced European meats and fats, milk, butter, and cheese to the Mexican diet. I researched all the farmers' markets and spent time on a rare breed pig farm in Cumbria. With the advent of farming in the Neolithic, a number of animal species were domesticated, starting with sheep, goats, pigs, and cattle. Cloned animals now include five species of mammals: sheep, goats, pigs, mice and cows - but all come with a dubious safety record. These features correlate with the more or less omnivorous diet of pigs and peccaries. Almost everyone worked with cattle, pigs, sheep, poultry and other domestic livestock. With the help of some farmers around, we kept two pigs fed on our leftovers. Foot and mouth can affect cattle, pigs, sheep and goats, leading to the development of blisters in the mouth causing increased salivation, and lameness. Settlements began to encourage the growth of plants such as barley and lentils and the domestication of pigs, sheep and goats. The telling factor could be if the disease gets into pig herds. But all cattle, sheep, pigs and goats will be banned from the show site. In addition, the water has been contaminated by discharge from local pig farms. Supplies of meat will be affected as cattle, pigs and sheep remain wherever they are. They first introduced horses, cattle, sheep, goats, pigs, and domestic poultry. Hair of pigs and horses are widely used in rugs and upholstery stuffings. When the programme is completed, it will have encompassed more than 1,200 pig herds. Remember to stress that they cannot keep the pot-bellied pig. The disease can affect cattle, sheep, pigs, goats and deer (cloven hoofed species). The animals that were kept domestically were much the same as today, sheep, pigs, cattle, goats and a few horses. Synonyms hog, boar, sow, porker, swine, piglet children's word piggy rare baconer, cutter, grunter 1.1 A wild animal of the pig family; a hog. Example sentencesExamples In Missouri last week state wildlife officials publicly urged the nearly 500,000 licensed deer hunters to kill feral pigs too. Catlike predators with long tails, fossas hunt everything from lemurs and mice to wild pigs. Other creatures can also flourish there, including quail, jackrabbits, and small, wild pigs called javelinas. In warmer periods the reindeer and mammoths would withdraw northwards, but they would give place to deer and wild pigs, which prefer a wooded environment. We enjoy long walks on the trails searching for the perfect walking stick, tracking deer, wild pigs and other animals. Ecologically, they range from forest dwellers, such as wild pigs and chevrotains, to dominant large herbivores on grasslands. Because of the rich diversity of this region, Nicobari pigeons, wild pigs, monitor lizards, tortoises, and crocodiles thrive there. Less than 25 percent of those eggs would hatch in the wild, with the rest eaten by monitor lizards and feral wild pigs or drowned by rainy season floods. In areas of highest density of the highlands there are no wild pigs and a few boars are kept for breeding. Feral pigs churn up soil and uproot native plant species, denuding landscapes and promoting weed growth. State and government agencies are also investigating whether wild pigs might play a role in spreading disease to crops that reach humans' plates. Wild pigs, porcupines and rats, which are the main predators in paddy fields, are kept away using traps. Wild pigs include the warthog, giant forest hog and red river hog. Pigs are hardy animals and prolific breeders, and in addition to the domestic animals reared on farms, nearly four million wild pigs now roam the United States. The trees' seeds are dispersed by birds, wild pigs, agoutis, bats, and monkeys, as well as by wind and water. Golden eagles are also being relocated to the mainland, an option not available for wild pigs, which the state designates as pests. From what scientists can tell, their preferred diet is deer and wild pigs called peccaries. Apparently rural hunters use dogs to hunt down and kill feral pigs. Such holidays occur after good hunts or when large game animals, such as an elephant or a wild pig, have been captured. Hunting provided most food: deer, wild cattle, elk, wild pig, pine martens, red fox, and beavers. 1.2North American A young pig; a piglet. Example sentencesExamples In contrast, iron is well recognized as being necessary for the young pig and must be administered within a few days of birth. He performed his experiments especially on monkeys and on young pigs and described the instruments and methods used in experimenting. There are several physiological changes that occur in the digestive tract of the young pig from birth to eight weeks of age. Major challenges of the young weanling pig involve the environment, health, and nutritional conditions. Nursing the sow and consuming colostrum shortly after birth is critical for pigs of any birth weight. Young pigs are kept in semi-darkness to minimise fighting and aggression caused through frustration due to their appalling conditions. Consequently, the young pig must be provided a large amount of energy from fat or carbohydrate in the colostrum in order to survive. For example, younger grower pigs have a high rate of bone growth and therefore have a higher calcium and phosphorus requirement. Sprinkling the starter diet or a small quantity of oat groats on the mat close to the feeder allows the pigs to become acquainted with the feeder. We have 300 sows and 200 young pigs which are being reared on the farm. Body tissues with the highest rate of formation in younger pigs are bone and muscle. 1.3mass noun The flesh of a pig as food. Example sentencesExamples Entry fee includes green fee, caddy, European and Thai food, and pig on a spit. In fact we can buy a ranch and eat suckling pig, if food is what bothers you and dress up for the carnival. "The team that was running the pig meat business is virtually intact. Belly of pork is the kitchen's star turn, a tender piece of pig scented with the pungent breath of garlic flowers - tube of crackling included. This huge chunk of pig leg was deliciously tender and moist served with steamed spinach, cherries and their reduction. He said pig meat accounts for almost half of all meat consumed within the EU. The food, which was served, consisted of roast pig, beef slices, as well as roast and mashed potatoes and provided all the energy for a long night's dancing into the early hours. This is a cold appetiser, with roast suckling pig, sliced beef, jelly fish and ham. Madonna's wedding meal was a truly mediaeval feast with a roast pig on a spit. Most of the population seemed to be pottering around the streets and there were dozens of stalls groaning under the weight of roast pigs. The Thursday plat du jour is suckling pig cooked to crackly perfection, with a smoky hint of apples. I don't eat pig meat and I don't drink any more. There is a tradition of roasted suckling pig with a red egg in its snout. Galicians specialize in trencherman food: suckling pig, grilled skate, pulpy octopus speckled with sea salt and paprika. Pork and other pig products - ham, bacon, and sausages - are staples of the Castilian diet. The crackling roast suckling pig may divide your table; it's nasty to some, but to others, each bite echoes the sound of maracas. In terms of food, it is usually a roast suckling pig and rice, but it can even be a sandwich. 2informal A greedy, dirty, or unpleasant person. I bet he's scoffed them all, greedy pig Example sentencesExamples She'd come close to hitting him except that he'd finished with such a charming smile that she couldn't stay irritated at him for being a chauvinist pig. He was a greedy pig, and he should never have given in. Maybe I'm a chauvinist pig, but you know, the women in my life have never given me any reason to think otherwise. Girls get backhanded by misogynist male pigs, women get into fistfights with each other, old flames line up on opposite sides of the battlefield. Thirty years later, feminists referred to men as ‘male chauvinist pigs.’ Almost down to his last low, although this time round, he had been such a greedy pig. Some of the lads embrace their new role as master of the house more enthusiastically than others, but are they really capable of playing the male chauvinist pig for the full four weeks? It's in my nature to be a greedy fat-sucking pig. Happily, in most cases, the gentlemen are not chauvinist pigs either, and both parents share the duties of feeding the chicks when they hatch. He couldn't help but admire how much more of a fat, greedy, oafish pig his uncle had become in his absence. He deserved it anyway, leaving me to be trampled on by those male pigs! I mean, a male chauvinist pig isn't born, he's made, and more and more of them are being made by women. Go ahead: call me an insensitive male chauvinist pig. At least I know he's not a sexist chauvinistic pig. A devotee of the sexual revolution, he remained in many ways an unreconstructed, 1950s male chauvinist pig. Synonyms glutton, guzzler, gobbler, gorger, gourmand, gourmandizer, binge eater informal greedy pig, hog, greedy guts, guts British informal gannet Northern Irish informal gorb brute, monster, devil scoundrel, rogue, wretch informal bastard, beast, louse, swine, rat, son of a bitch, s.o.b., low life British informal toerag, scrote informal, dated bounder, rotter, heel, stinker, blighter dated cad vulgar slang shit, sod, bugger 3derogatory A police officer. were the pigs there when the windows were smashed or not? Example sentencesExamples Sure, you might call the guy who is a pig a pig, but not all policemen. And a man who called a policeman a pig had to stand for two hours with a hog in a pen set up in a town centre. At about the same time, people who disliked the police began calling them pigs. All police are pigs because they make the conscious decision to join an organization which is, basically, legal GANGSTERISM. He's known for unusual sentences, like the time he ordered a man who called a police officer a pig to spend a couple of hours penned up with the real thing. 4An oblong mass of iron or lead from a smelting furnace. See also pig iron Example sentencesExamples Lead ore, pig lead, timber and chert stones from Flintshire were the other significant cargoes. In order to make malleable wrought iron, the iron pigs were reheated and forged into red hot iron masses called blooms. The French iron industry, together with the Italian, came to excel in engineering rather than in the manufacture of pig and cast-iron. One indication of its importance is the incidence of lead pigs or ingots, many stamped with the emperor's name or that of a lessee, which have been found across Britain. 5A 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. Example sentencesExamples Depending upon function, different pig designs are used. I thought the miniature pig laser tests we did for NASA on the ISS were crazy. The pig is forced down the pipeline by hydrostatic or pneumatic pressure that is applied behind the pig. verbpigs, pigging, pigged pɪɡpɪɡ [no object] 1informal Gorge oneself with food. lovesick people pig out on chocolate Example sentencesExamples I've been trying to eat properly recently, as I am fighting the proverbial battle of the bulge, but over the last two days, I have been pigging out! Any more of this Zen acceptance stuff and I'd sit about all day blissfully pigging out on junk food and getting obese. And, as the whole pack contained only 280 calories, there were no guilt issues about pigging out. A couple of hours later after the girls had pigged out on food, watched a movie, and talked for over an hour, Abby was sound asleep on the floor. Well, after we got through pigging out, we all sat around, too stuffed to move. She rapidly scanned the room to see if she knew anyone and in the corner of the room where she was sitting that morning, she spotted her brother and Alex still pigging out on food. And as if that wasn't enough, she pigs out on a raspberry and almond tart too. As soon as they got their food they started pigging out as the man had said to do. The idea is that if we remove those toxins that have built up in our bodies from bad diet, pigging out, late nights, stressful lifestyles and pollutants in the atmosphere, we will find health and vitality. The three girls danced and laughed and Jenn pigged out on the food. My sister-in-law, who is a qualified nutritionist, was impressed by the fact that instead of my usual bacon, sausage and egg for breakfast I was now pigging out on fat-free yoghurts and masses of fruit. Since the last time I was here, the Hotel had added sausage, bacon and eggs to their buffet breakfast and we lingered, savoured or pigged out if you prefer. The two of them were in Paige's dorm room pigging out on junk food watching television. Alyssa and I were in the hotel room pigging out on Chinese food. We shared traditional Bulgarian, Russian, and American foods, and pigged out for four hours. Fortunately he gave up and drove off, leaving us to enjoy the rest of the night pigging out on western style food and booze and dodgy films. The guests stayed a few hours, and they took turns playing video games, they all pigged out on junk food, Eon showed the group his latest paintings, and Melanie read them her latest chapter of her book. We went to a nice restaurant where I pigged out on seafood. They sat around Denise's mom dinning table and pigged out on as much food as they could stuff inside their mouths. Suppertime had been Dad's favorite time of the day and Mom had always loved cooking great things for him and they used to sit across the table from each other just enjoying the moment as us kids pigged out on the food. Synonyms stuff, cram, fill 2informal Crowd together with other people in disorderly or dirty conditions. he didn't approve of the proposal to pig it in the studio Example sentencesExamples After years of separation, their paths cross only to find out that Anna is living a happy married life with two children, whereas Raoul has become a porter with a family of six children who are forced to pig it as they cannot afford proper housing. So long as they pigged it with him and were willing to share his lot he was not unkind to them, unless he happened by some accident to achieve drunkenness. 'The men were prepared to pig it anyhow, and a few cubic feet of space didn't matter - such was their spirit.' Having no offer of beds, I returned to the schooner, and we pigged it out in the least miserable way we could. In Bolton they pigged it in a wretched artisans' dwelling in Davenport Street. The project was none the less immensely successful. 3(of a sow) give birth to piglets; farrow. Example sentencesExamples The other sow pigged, and has raised a lovely litter of 6. If their sow pigged or their hens breed chickens, they cannot afford to eat them but must sell them to make their rent. The patron of the hospital was held in such esteem, that when any person's sow pigged, one was set apart, and fed as fat as they could make it, to give to the brethren of St. Anthony. 4Operate a pig within an oil or gas pipeline. they will carry out all trenching and pigging Example sentencesExamples And once you've pigged, or maintenance pigged, the pipeline, then you run a smart pig through there, and a smart pig measures the wall thickness of the pipe so that you can find little weaknesses before they rupture. The purpose of operational pigging is to obtain and maintain efficiency of the pipeline to be pigged. If the pipeline is to be cleaned mechanically or "pigged" the pipeline size may dictate the minimum valve bore or the valve configuration. Phrases bleed like a (stuck) pig Bleed copiously. Example sentencesExamples The tattoo was done in about an hour, even though I bled like a stuck pig. He hit me on the top of the head with the gun and I was bleeding like a pig and lost the sight in my left eye from the blood. The witnesses were more than impressed by the officer who carried on stoically despite bleeding like a stuck pig. Her ear is split in two and she is bleeding like a stuck pig… God Jesse… you were bleeding like a stuck pig… Luckily, Damien has the same blood type as you. He sighed, wearily, and looked up, to assure the person that he was fine, he bled like a pig every day. You were unconscious, badly injured, half-dead, and bleeding like a stuck pig. The arrow had to cut some big arteries because he bled like a stuck pig. ‘I'm bleeding like a stuck pig,’ I mumbled, walking quickly as fast as I could to the ladies’. I can't cut my boy's hair, I nicked his ear last time and I felt awful, it was the tiniest cut but he bled like a stuck pig. in pig (of a sow) pregnant. Example sentencesExamples Some breeders will leave the boar in with the sow until they can feel that the sow is in pig. A piglet from the porcherie costs FRw 5000 (10) but the fatted pig can sell for FRw 15000 or a little more if a sow is in pig. The first indication that a sow is ‘in pig’ is failing to come back in season after being mated. in a pig's eye informal Expressing scornful disbelief at a statement. ‘Under other circumstances, I think we could have been friends.’ ‘In a pig's eye,’ Susan thought Example sentencesExamples The down-home narrative is folksy and fun to read aloud, particularly Granny's refrain, "In a pig's eye! My, oh, my!" In a pig's eye is rhyming slang for lie, and usually means Nonsense! make a pig of oneself informal Overeat. we made pigs of ourselves, with too many sweets Example sentencesExamples Stella comments that Stanley is making a pig of himself with the greasy food at the table. If you want to go whole-hog on steak without making a pig of yourself, try Belgian Blue beef. If I tempt you with ice-cream knowing that you will renege on your diet as a result, am I partly responsible for your making a pig of yourself? The first side involves Stan making a pig of himself. It's not all making a pig of yourself, though, with five golden-beached islands just a few miles offshore. Excuse me for making a pig of myself, but I've only had a sandwich at the wheel of the car. Looks like someone's going to make a pig of herself soon. Madame however, could not resist the thought of the bread and butter pudding with custard, and made a pig of herself, finishing with a wide smile, while saying, ‘Delicious!’ We made our way to the dining room, where Kevin was already making a pig of himself. I couldn't help but make a pig of myself and eat them by the handful. Synonyms drink too much, eat too much, overeat, drink like a fish, overdrink, be greedy, be immoderate, be intemperate, overindulge oneself, overdo it, not know when to stop, drink to excess, eat to excess, go to excess, gorge, gorge oneself, surfeit, guzzle, feast make a pig's ear of informal Handle ineptly. only adults make a pig's ear of it when they start fishing Example sentencesExamples It charged councillors with having squandered the windfall receipts from the flotation of the municipally-owned telephone company three years ago and making a pig's ear of its housing policy. OK, I'm sorry, I've made a pig's ear of your point. Having said that, you could give the same fellow his choice of angles and he'd still make a pig's ear of it. Perhaps the one point we agree on is that the present government has made a pig's ear of dealing with asylum applications. There are no defenders but Park still makes a pig's ear of it and Barry saves. Sadly I made a pig's ear of it and had a bit of trouble surfacing. ‘Football's a cut-throat industry and you do get criticism when you make a pig's ear of it,’ said Arthur. Now they are in danger of making a pig's ear of government policy on health. Let's just hope they don't make a pig's ear of it. While helping out plump, inhibited city accountant Albert with his love life, he makes a pig's ear of his own. Synonyms bungle, mess up, make a mess of, botch, spoil, mar, ruin, mishandle, mismanage on the pig's back informal Living a life of ease and luxury; in a very fortunate situation. Example sentencesExamples The bookmaking company is also on the pig's back, having donated all profits from the betting to the appeal. He is on the pig's back - technically or figuratively, I do not know. Those fortunate ones who own such ground are sitting on the pig's back, or more correctly on a veritable goldmine. They'll be handing out press releases like medals, each bringing more news as to why we're all on the pig's back as a result of their department's spending settlement. He's on the pig's back, sure he'll top the poll. a pig in a poke Something that is bought or accepted without first being seen or assessed. the unwary were apt to buy a pig in the poke Example sentencesExamples I'm afraid I can't offer much information on the state of the company - they haven't spoken with me for ages so it's a bit of a pig in a poke. I would like to know more about the whole thing and I don't intend voting for a pig in a poke. The former mayor said: ‘People are being asked to vote for a pig in a poke - it is all so uncertain.’ It was obvious to many observers, that when the county council went for the Cocklebury Road site, they bought a pig in a poke. And with a court that's divided 5-4 on so many of those cases, we're not willing to buy a pig in a poke. For most people, buying an air ticket is buying a pig in a poke. As far as I can see we're being asked to buy a pig in a poke. Let us hope that they recognise a pig in a poke when it is offered to them. Managers sometimes bought a pig in a poke - not fully understanding what they were getting. To some extent the opposition has bought a pig in a poke here. pig in the python A sharp statistical increase represented as a bulge in an otherwise level pattern, used especially with reference to the baby-boom generation regarded as having a gradual effect on consumer spending, society, etc. as they grow older. Example sentencesExamples The current annual deficit of $1.5 trillion does not even address the "pig in the python," baby boomer, demographic squeeze on resources that looms straight ahead. Boomers are still the pig in the python of the nation's population and, for keen-eyed investors, the cohort to watch. a pig of a — informal Used to describe something unpleasant or difficult. it's a pig of a job Example sentencesExamples And I know I've got to add the awards section into the navigation too - that'll be a pig of a job, for one day when I'm bored comatose or something. The only shame about it all was the fact only 280 people turned up on what was, granted, a pig of a day. Some farmers won't let it be a pig of a Christmas in more ways than one. Pinning everything on the Australian Open, he lost in the first round in a pig of a match. God forbid such a pig of a man should have become Prime Minister. pigs might (or can) fly Used ironically to express disbelief. ‘Maybe he's trying to change.’ ‘And maybe pigs can fly.’ Example sentencesExamples Well, if people believe that, they believe that pigs can fly. Today was exactly like yesterday and to think tomorrow will be any different is the hope that pigs might fly. ‘And pigs can fly,’ Stevens said sarcastically. However, the heavily disguised Greenpeace Mercedes Benz shows just when they think the world will stop polluting itself - when pigs might fly! As the Police are to get their 76 per cent increase, maybe we will see a local bobby walking the beat and incidents such as these would be totally avoidable, then again pigs might fly. She rolled her eyes, ‘Right and pigs can fly. The Truth might be there - undeniable and incontrovertible - but there'll still be people who'll say the world is flat, that the moon is made of green cheese and that pigs can fly. Shrugging his shoulder, he replied easily, ‘I'll save you the day pigs can fly.’ Well, that was the theory, but they forgot that pigs might fly too. Ryan looked at her incredulously ‘I'll let you and your companion go when pigs can fly!’ put lipstick on a pig informal Make superficial changes to something generally regarded with dislike or disfavour in a fruitless attempt to make it more appealing. you can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig any attempt to revise the bill would amount to putting lipstick on a pig Example sentencesExamples No matter how "green" they seem, it's like putting lipstick on a pig – they still can't hide their ugliness. He likened their effect on the team to "putting lipstick on a pig". I had to put lipstick on a pig. They call it putting lipstick on a pig because these barracks are so old. The one GOP congressman compared the changes to "putting lipstick on a pig." FBI officials say moving its old system online was too costly, akin to "putting lipstick on a pig." He also said he wants the focus to be on the issues not on, quote, "lipstick on a pig stuff." We're not trying to sugarcoat things, or put lipstick on a pig, or anything like that. You can put lipstick on a pig, but you can't call it a lady. Boos and cheers greeted the announcement in the meeting; one heckler called it 'Lipstick on a pig!' It's essentially putting lipstick on a pig and you still end up with a bad trade deal at the end of the day. squeal (or yell) like a stuck pig Squeal or yell loudly and shrilly. Example sentencesExamples She incessantly talks loudly to herself in high-pitched screeching cartoony voices, makes what I can only describe as ‘squirrel noises,’ and squeals like a stuck pig whenever she gets an e-mail/fax/etc. All of them, except one who is… um, slightly overweight, jumped into the building through the window, headfirst, while our fat friend was squealing like a stuck pig, ‘I can't climb up! The execrable Mr. Cole squeals like a stuck pig when the shoe is on the other foot. Andrew was squealing like a stuck pig after last year's $18 a week rise for the nation's working poor. I moaned about feeling sweaty so he shut me up by turning the hose on me and making me squeal like a stuck pig. One scene in particular had me squealing like a stuck pig from the awkwardness of it. You can't have someone who has been squealing like a stuck pig about these proposals to increase shareholder power chairing the country's largest shareholder. The chorus mostly natters in a monotone, the soprano squeals like a stuck pig, the percussion instruments gurgle solemnly, the string soloists noodle, and the conductor stands in the middle of it all sending out anguished conductorial signals. She jumped back in surprise when the figure squealed like a stuck pig and began to race around the room on all fours, scattering its filth all over the place. The coffee couldn't have been hot enough for him to clutch his throat and squeal like a stuck pig. sweat like a pig informal Sweat profusely. this priest outfit makes you sweat like a pig Example sentencesExamples It is a non-air-conditioned one, and none of the windows are open, so I'll be sweating like a pig for fifteen minutes. After ten minutes of this I was sweating like a pig in a sauna, and soon I was aching all over. Then I started sweating like a pig on the train because there was no air conditioning and it was in the high 20's. He said it seemed that I had a nightmare because I was sweating like a pig. His face is a beetroot and he's sweating like a pig. I only had half an hour before checking in and I was sweating like a pig, so I decided to wait at the hotel. No, I'm sweating like a pig, can you turn on the air please? But what happens is that you put on your nice clothes, then by the time you walk up the 75 steps you are sweating like a pig. I'm wearing shorts and a t-shirt, carrying a backpack, and sweating like a pig. I got there just as the train pulled in and stood in the doorway, sweating like a pig, wishing someone would open a window. Derivatives piglike adjective Agoutis are smaller than their relatives the piglike pacas and larger than squirrels, which they resemble. Example sentencesExamples The most intriguing thing about him were his small, piglike eyes that were nearly swallowed up by the large brow on his pudgy face. Too, this unique region also hosts an impressive array of other wildlife, including blacktail prairie dogs, gray foxes, and piglike javelinas. For the next 80 million years, synapsids evolved into various wolflike and bearlike predators, as well as into an array of peculiar piglike herbivores. pigling noun I went down each morning to say my hellos to the pigs and the people: cute little wee black piglings and mighty great boars and snufflers. Origin Middle English: probably from the first element of Old English picbrēd 'acorn', literally 'pig bread' (i.e. food for pigs). The word pig appears in Old English only once, the usual word being swine. In the Middle Ages pig at first meant specifically ‘a young pig’, as it still does in North America. Observations such as pigs might fly had a 17th-century parallel in pigs fly with their tails forward. An early user of the modern form was Lewis Carroll in 1865 in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: ‘ “I've a right to think,” said Alice sharply…“Just about as much right,” said the Duchess, “as pigs have to fly.” ’ In a pig in a poke, poke (Middle English) means ‘a small sack or bag’, now found mainly in Scottish English. The British phrase to make a pig's ear out of, ‘to handle ineptly’, probably derives from the proverb you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, recorded from the 16th century. In the children's game pig (or piggy) in the middle, first recorded in the Folk-Lore Journal of 1887, two people throw a ball to each other while a third tries to intercept it. This is behind the use of pig in the middle for a person who is in an awkward situation between two others. Piggyback has been around since the mid 16th century, but the origin of the expression has been lost. Early forms tend to be something like ‘pick-a-pack’ which seems to have been changed by folk etymology to the form we now have. See also hog Rhymes big, brig, dig, fig, gig, grig, jig, lig, prig, rig, snig, sprig, swig, tig, trig, twig, Whig, wig noun.1 phr. Definition of pig in US English: pig nounpiɡpɪɡ 1An omnivorous domesticated hoofed mammal with sparse bristly hair and a flat snout for rooting in the soil, kept for its meat. Sus domesticus (with numerous varieties), family Suidae (the pig family), descended from the wild boar and domesticated over 8,000 years ago. The pig family also includes the warthog and babirusa, but the similar peccaries are placed in their own family Example sentencesExamples The telling factor could be if the disease gets into pig herds. Hair of pigs and horses are widely used in rugs and upholstery stuffings. I researched all the farmers' markets and spent time on a rare breed pig farm in Cumbria. Remember to stress that they cannot keep the pot-bellied pig. These features correlate with the more or less omnivorous diet of pigs and peccaries. But all cattle, sheep, pigs and goats will be banned from the show site. They first introduced horses, cattle, sheep, goats, pigs, and domestic poultry. The hides of cattle, sheep, pigs, goats and deer, and perhaps horses, were all used. With the advent of farming in the Neolithic, a number of animal species were domesticated, starting with sheep, goats, pigs, and cattle. The animals that were kept domestically were much the same as today, sheep, pigs, cattle, goats and a few horses. When the programme is completed, it will have encompassed more than 1,200 pig herds. Supplies of meat will be affected as cattle, pigs and sheep remain wherever they are. In addition, the water has been contaminated by discharge from local pig farms. Settlements began to encourage the growth of plants such as barley and lentils and the domestication of pigs, sheep and goats. Foot and mouth can affect cattle, pigs, sheep and goats, leading to the development of blisters in the mouth causing increased salivation, and lameness. The disease can affect cattle, sheep, pigs, goats and deer (cloven hoofed species). Almost everyone worked with cattle, pigs, sheep, poultry and other domestic livestock. Besides this, Spanish cattle, pigs, sheep, and goats introduced European meats and fats, milk, butter, and cheese to the Mexican diet. With the help of some farmers around, we kept two pigs fed on our leftovers. Cloned animals now include five species of mammals: sheep, goats, pigs, mice and cows - but all come with a dubious safety record. Synonyms hog, boar, sow, porker, swine, piglet 1.1 A wild animal of the pig family. Example sentencesExamples Ecologically, they range from forest dwellers, such as wild pigs and chevrotains, to dominant large herbivores on grasslands. In Missouri last week state wildlife officials publicly urged the nearly 500,000 licensed deer hunters to kill feral pigs too. Apparently rural hunters use dogs to hunt down and kill feral pigs. Golden eagles are also being relocated to the mainland, an option not available for wild pigs, which the state designates as pests. Wild pigs, porcupines and rats, which are the main predators in paddy fields, are kept away using traps. Less than 25 percent of those eggs would hatch in the wild, with the rest eaten by monitor lizards and feral wild pigs or drowned by rainy season floods. Such holidays occur after good hunts or when large game animals, such as an elephant or a wild pig, have been captured. Other creatures can also flourish there, including quail, jackrabbits, and small, wild pigs called javelinas. We enjoy long walks on the trails searching for the perfect walking stick, tracking deer, wild pigs and other animals. Catlike predators with long tails, fossas hunt everything from lemurs and mice to wild pigs. Hunting provided most food: deer, wild cattle, elk, wild pig, pine martens, red fox, and beavers. State and government agencies are also investigating whether wild pigs might play a role in spreading disease to crops that reach humans' plates. Feral pigs churn up soil and uproot native plant species, denuding landscapes and promoting weed growth. In warmer periods the reindeer and mammoths would withdraw northwards, but they would give place to deer and wild pigs, which prefer a wooded environment. The trees' seeds are dispersed by birds, wild pigs, agoutis, bats, and monkeys, as well as by wind and water. In areas of highest density of the highlands there are no wild pigs and a few boars are kept for breeding. From what scientists can tell, their preferred diet is deer and wild pigs called peccaries. Pigs are hardy animals and prolific breeders, and in addition to the domestic animals reared on farms, nearly four million wild pigs now roam the United States. Because of the rich diversity of this region, Nicobari pigeons, wild pigs, monitor lizards, tortoises, and crocodiles thrive there. Wild pigs include the warthog, giant forest hog and red river hog. 1.2North American A young pig; a piglet. Example sentencesExamples Young pigs are kept in semi-darkness to minimise fighting and aggression caused through frustration due to their appalling conditions. Nursing the sow and consuming colostrum shortly after birth is critical for pigs of any birth weight. Consequently, the young pig must be provided a large amount of energy from fat or carbohydrate in the colostrum in order to survive. Major challenges of the young weanling pig involve the environment, health, and nutritional conditions. For example, younger grower pigs have a high rate of bone growth and therefore have a higher calcium and phosphorus requirement. He performed his experiments especially on monkeys and on young pigs and described the instruments and methods used in experimenting. Body tissues with the highest rate of formation in younger pigs are bone and muscle. In contrast, iron is well recognized as being necessary for the young pig and must be administered within a few days of birth. We have 300 sows and 200 young pigs which are being reared on the farm. Sprinkling the starter diet or a small quantity of oat groats on the mat close to the feeder allows the pigs to become acquainted with the feeder. There are several physiological changes that occur in the digestive tract of the young pig from birth to eight weeks of age. 1.3 The flesh of a pig, especially a young one, as food. Example sentencesExamples In fact we can buy a ranch and eat suckling pig, if food is what bothers you and dress up for the carnival. He said pig meat accounts for almost half of all meat consumed within the EU. This is a cold appetiser, with roast suckling pig, sliced beef, jelly fish and ham. In terms of food, it is usually a roast suckling pig and rice, but it can even be a sandwich. "The team that was running the pig meat business is virtually intact. Entry fee includes green fee, caddy, European and Thai food, and pig on a spit. The crackling roast suckling pig may divide your table; it's nasty to some, but to others, each bite echoes the sound of maracas. This huge chunk of pig leg was deliciously tender and moist served with steamed spinach, cherries and their reduction. Madonna's wedding meal was a truly mediaeval feast with a roast pig on a spit. The food, which was served, consisted of roast pig, beef slices, as well as roast and mashed potatoes and provided all the energy for a long night's dancing into the early hours. There is a tradition of roasted suckling pig with a red egg in its snout. Most of the population seemed to be pottering around the streets and there were dozens of stalls groaning under the weight of roast pigs. Pork and other pig products - ham, bacon, and sausages - are staples of the Castilian diet. The Thursday plat du jour is suckling pig cooked to crackly perfection, with a smoky hint of apples. I don't eat pig meat and I don't drink any more. Galicians specialize in trencherman food: suckling pig, grilled skate, pulpy octopus speckled with sea salt and paprika. Belly of pork is the kitchen's star turn, a tender piece of pig scented with the pungent breath of garlic flowers - tube of crackling included. 2informal A greedy, dirty, or unpleasant person. you're such a pig when it comes to sleep Example sentencesExamples It's in my nature to be a greedy fat-sucking pig. He deserved it anyway, leaving me to be trampled on by those male pigs! At least I know he's not a sexist chauvinistic pig. He was a greedy pig, and he should never have given in. Thirty years later, feminists referred to men as ‘male chauvinist pigs.’ I mean, a male chauvinist pig isn't born, he's made, and more and more of them are being made by women. He couldn't help but admire how much more of a fat, greedy, oafish pig his uncle had become in his absence. Happily, in most cases, the gentlemen are not chauvinist pigs either, and both parents share the duties of feeding the chicks when they hatch. Maybe I'm a chauvinist pig, but you know, the women in my life have never given me any reason to think otherwise. Go ahead: call me an insensitive male chauvinist pig. A devotee of the sexual revolution, he remained in many ways an unreconstructed, 1950s male chauvinist pig. Girls get backhanded by misogynist male pigs, women get into fistfights with each other, old flames line up on opposite sides of the battlefield. Some of the lads embrace their new role as master of the house more enthusiastically than others, but are they really capable of playing the male chauvinist pig for the full four weeks? Almost down to his last low, although this time round, he had been such a greedy pig. She'd come close to hitting him except that he'd finished with such a charming smile that she couldn't stay irritated at him for being a chauvinist pig. Synonyms glutton, guzzler, gobbler, gorger, gourmand, gourmandizer, binge eater brute, monster, devil 3derogatory A police officer. Example sentencesExamples He's known for unusual sentences, like the time he ordered a man who called a police officer a pig to spend a couple of hours penned up with the real thing. At about the same time, people who disliked the police began calling them pigs. Sure, you might call the guy who is a pig a pig, but not all policemen. And a man who called a policeman a pig had to stand for two hours with a hog in a pen set up in a town centre. All police are pigs because they make the conscious decision to join an organization which is, basically, legal GANGSTERISM. 4An oblong mass of iron or lead from a smelting furnace. See also pig iron Example sentencesExamples One indication of its importance is the incidence of lead pigs or ingots, many stamped with the emperor's name or that of a lessee, which have been found across Britain. Lead ore, pig lead, timber and chert stones from Flintshire were the other significant cargoes. In order to make malleable wrought iron, the iron pigs were reheated and forged into red hot iron masses called blooms. The French iron industry, together with the Italian, came to excel in engineering rather than in the manufacture of pig and cast-iron. 5A 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. Example sentencesExamples Depending upon function, different pig designs are used. The pig is forced down the pipeline by hydrostatic or pneumatic pressure that is applied behind the pig. I thought the miniature pig laser tests we did for NASA on the ISS were crazy. verbpiɡpɪɡ [no object] 1informal Gorge oneself with food. don't pig out on chips before dinner Example sentencesExamples Any more of this Zen acceptance stuff and I'd sit about all day blissfully pigging out on junk food and getting obese. She rapidly scanned the room to see if she knew anyone and in the corner of the room where she was sitting that morning, she spotted her brother and Alex still pigging out on food. My sister-in-law, who is a qualified nutritionist, was impressed by the fact that instead of my usual bacon, sausage and egg for breakfast I was now pigging out on fat-free yoghurts and masses of fruit. And, as the whole pack contained only 280 calories, there were no guilt issues about pigging out. I've been trying to eat properly recently, as I am fighting the proverbial battle of the bulge, but over the last two days, I have been pigging out! The two of them were in Paige's dorm room pigging out on junk food watching television. Alyssa and I were in the hotel room pigging out on Chinese food. The guests stayed a few hours, and they took turns playing video games, they all pigged out on junk food, Eon showed the group his latest paintings, and Melanie read them her latest chapter of her book. Suppertime had been Dad's favorite time of the day and Mom had always loved cooking great things for him and they used to sit across the table from each other just enjoying the moment as us kids pigged out on the food. We went to a nice restaurant where I pigged out on seafood. We shared traditional Bulgarian, Russian, and American foods, and pigged out for four hours. The idea is that if we remove those toxins that have built up in our bodies from bad diet, pigging out, late nights, stressful lifestyles and pollutants in the atmosphere, we will find health and vitality. Well, after we got through pigging out, we all sat around, too stuffed to move. Fortunately he gave up and drove off, leaving us to enjoy the rest of the night pigging out on western style food and booze and dodgy films. A couple of hours later after the girls had pigged out on food, watched a movie, and talked for over an hour, Abby was sound asleep on the floor. The three girls danced and laughed and Jenn pigged out on the food. They sat around Denise's mom dinning table and pigged out on as much food as they could stuff inside their mouths. Since the last time I was here, the Hotel had added sausage, bacon and eggs to their buffet breakfast and we lingered, savoured or pigged out if you prefer. And as if that wasn't enough, she pigs out on a raspberry and almond tart too. As soon as they got their food they started pigging out as the man had said to do. Synonyms stuff, cram, fill 2informal Crowd together with other people in disorderly or dirty conditions. he and Irving pigged it for years in a shoebox of an apartment I have no intention of pigging with that bunch for another day Example sentencesExamples So long as they pigged it with him and were willing to share his lot he was not unkind to them, unless he happened by some accident to achieve drunkenness. 'The men were prepared to pig it anyhow, and a few cubic feet of space didn't matter - such was their spirit.' Having no offer of beds, I returned to the schooner, and we pigged it out in the least miserable way we could. In Bolton they pigged it in a wretched artisans' dwelling in Davenport Street. The project was none the less immensely successful. After years of separation, their paths cross only to find out that Anna is living a happy married life with two children, whereas Raoul has become a porter with a family of six children who are forced to pig it as they cannot afford proper housing. 3(of a sow) give birth to piglets; farrow. Example sentencesExamples The other sow pigged, and has raised a lovely litter of 6. The patron of the hospital was held in such esteem, that when any person's sow pigged, one was set apart, and fed as fat as they could make it, to give to the brethren of St. Anthony. If their sow pigged or their hens breed chickens, they cannot afford to eat them but must sell them to make their rent. 4Operate a pig within an oil or gas pipeline. Example sentencesExamples And once you've pigged, or maintenance pigged, the pipeline, then you run a smart pig through there, and a smart pig measures the wall thickness of the pipe so that you can find little weaknesses before they rupture. If the pipeline is to be cleaned mechanically or "pigged" the pipeline size may dictate the minimum valve bore or the valve configuration. The purpose of operational pigging is to obtain and maintain efficiency of the pipeline to be pigged. Phrases bleed like a (stuck) pig Bleed copiously. Example sentencesExamples God Jesse… you were bleeding like a stuck pig… Luckily, Damien has the same blood type as you. I can't cut my boy's hair, I nicked his ear last time and I felt awful, it was the tiniest cut but he bled like a stuck pig. The tattoo was done in about an hour, even though I bled like a stuck pig. The arrow had to cut some big arteries because he bled like a stuck pig. You were unconscious, badly injured, half-dead, and bleeding like a stuck pig. ‘I'm bleeding like a stuck pig,’ I mumbled, walking quickly as fast as I could to the ladies’. He sighed, wearily, and looked up, to assure the person that he was fine, he bled like a pig every day. He hit me on the top of the head with the gun and I was bleeding like a pig and lost the sight in my left eye from the blood. The witnesses were more than impressed by the officer who carried on stoically despite bleeding like a stuck pig. Her ear is split in two and she is bleeding like a stuck pig… in pig (of a sow) pregnant. Example sentencesExamples The first indication that a sow is ‘in pig’ is failing to come back in season after being mated. A piglet from the porcherie costs FRw 5000 (10) but the fatted pig can sell for FRw 15000 or a little more if a sow is in pig. Some breeders will leave the boar in with the sow until they can feel that the sow is in pig. in a pig's eye informal Expressing scornful disbelief at a statement. Example sentencesExamples In a pig's eye is rhyming slang for lie, and usually means Nonsense! The down-home narrative is folksy and fun to read aloud, particularly Granny's refrain, "In a pig's eye! My, oh, my!" make a pig of oneself informal Overeat; eat more than one's share. Example sentencesExamples Looks like someone's going to make a pig of herself soon. I couldn't help but make a pig of myself and eat them by the handful. Stella comments that Stanley is making a pig of himself with the greasy food at the table. Madame however, could not resist the thought of the bread and butter pudding with custard, and made a pig of herself, finishing with a wide smile, while saying, ‘Delicious!’ Excuse me for making a pig of myself, but I've only had a sandwich at the wheel of the car. If you want to go whole-hog on steak without making a pig of yourself, try Belgian Blue beef. We made our way to the dining room, where Kevin was already making a pig of himself. If I tempt you with ice-cream knowing that you will renege on your diet as a result, am I partly responsible for your making a pig of yourself? It's not all making a pig of yourself, though, with five golden-beached islands just a few miles offshore. The first side involves Stan making a pig of himself. Synonyms drink too much, eat too much, overeat, drink like a fish, overdrink, be greedy, be immoderate, be intemperate, overindulge oneself, overdo it, not know when to stop, drink to excess, eat to excess, go to excess, gorge, gorge oneself, surfeit, guzzle, feast make a pig's ear of informal Handle ineptly. Example sentencesExamples Sadly I made a pig's ear of it and had a bit of trouble surfacing. There are no defenders but Park still makes a pig's ear of it and Barry saves. OK, I'm sorry, I've made a pig's ear of your point. It charged councillors with having squandered the windfall receipts from the flotation of the municipally-owned telephone company three years ago and making a pig's ear of its housing policy. ‘Football's a cut-throat industry and you do get criticism when you make a pig's ear of it,’ said Arthur. Let's just hope they don't make a pig's ear of it. Perhaps the one point we agree on is that the present government has made a pig's ear of dealing with asylum applications. Now they are in danger of making a pig's ear of government policy on health. While helping out plump, inhibited city accountant Albert with his love life, he makes a pig's ear of his own. Having said that, you could give the same fellow his choice of angles and he'd still make a pig's ear of it. Synonyms bungle, mess up, make a mess of, botch, spoil, mar, ruin, mishandle, mismanage a pig in a poke Something that is bought or accepted without knowing its value or seeing it first. Example sentencesExamples I would like to know more about the whole thing and I don't intend voting for a pig in a poke. For most people, buying an air ticket is buying a pig in a poke. As far as I can see we're being asked to buy a pig in a poke. The former mayor said: ‘People are being asked to vote for a pig in a poke - it is all so uncertain.’ It was obvious to many observers, that when the county council went for the Cocklebury Road site, they bought a pig in a poke. Managers sometimes bought a pig in a poke - not fully understanding what they were getting. To some extent the opposition has bought a pig in a poke here. And with a court that's divided 5-4 on so many of those cases, we're not willing to buy a pig in a poke. Let us hope that they recognise a pig in a poke when it is offered to them. I'm afraid I can't offer much information on the state of the company - they haven't spoken with me for ages so it's a bit of a pig in a poke. put lipstick on a pig informal Make superficial changes to something regarded with dislike or disfavor in a fruitless attempt to make it more appealing. any attempt to revise the bill would amount to putting lipstick on a pig Example sentencesExamples I had to put lipstick on a pig. We're not trying to sugarcoat things, or put lipstick on a pig, or anything like that. No matter how "green" they seem, it's like putting lipstick on a pig – they still can't hide their ugliness. They call it putting lipstick on a pig because these barracks are so old. The one GOP congressman compared the changes to "putting lipstick on a pig." He also said he wants the focus to be on the issues not on, quote, "lipstick on a pig stuff." FBI officials say moving its old system online was too costly, akin to "putting lipstick on a pig." You can put lipstick on a pig, but you can't call it a lady. It's essentially putting lipstick on a pig and you still end up with a bad trade deal at the end of the day. Boos and cheers greeted the announcement in the meeting; one heckler called it 'Lipstick on a pig!' He likened their effect on the team to "putting lipstick on a pig". sweat like a pig informal Sweat profusely. Example sentencesExamples Then I started sweating like a pig on the train because there was no air conditioning and it was in the high 20's. No, I'm sweating like a pig, can you turn on the air please? His face is a beetroot and he's sweating like a pig. I got there just as the train pulled in and stood in the doorway, sweating like a pig, wishing someone would open a window. It is a non-air-conditioned one, and none of the windows are open, so I'll be sweating like a pig for fifteen minutes. I only had half an hour before checking in and I was sweating like a pig, so I decided to wait at the hotel. He said it seemed that I had a nightmare because I was sweating like a pig. After ten minutes of this I was sweating like a pig in a sauna, and soon I was aching all over. I'm wearing shorts and a t-shirt, carrying a backpack, and sweating like a pig. But what happens is that you put on your nice clothes, then by the time you walk up the 75 steps you are sweating like a pig. squeal like a pig Squeal or yell loudly and shrilly. Example sentencesExamples I moaned about feeling sweaty so he shut me up by turning the hose on me and making me squeal like a stuck pig. She jumped back in surprise when the figure squealed like a stuck pig and began to race around the room on all fours, scattering its filth all over the place. The chorus mostly natters in a monotone, the soprano squeals like a stuck pig, the percussion instruments gurgle solemnly, the string soloists noodle, and the conductor stands in the middle of it all sending out anguished conductorial signals. One scene in particular had me squealing like a stuck pig from the awkwardness of it. Andrew was squealing like a stuck pig after last year's $18 a week rise for the nation's working poor. The coffee couldn't have been hot enough for him to clutch his throat and squeal like a stuck pig. You can't have someone who has been squealing like a stuck pig about these proposals to increase shareholder power chairing the country's largest shareholder. The execrable Mr. Cole squeals like a stuck pig when the shoe is on the other foot. She incessantly talks loudly to herself in high-pitched screeching cartoony voices, makes what I can only describe as ‘squirrel noises,’ and squeals like a stuck pig whenever she gets an e-mail/fax/etc. All of them, except one who is… um, slightly overweight, jumped into the building through the window, headfirst, while our fat friend was squealing like a stuck pig, ‘I can't climb up! Origin Middle English: probably from the first element of Old English picbrēd ‘acorn’, literally ‘pig bread’ (i.e. food for pigs). noun.1 phr.
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