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Pig   /pɪg/   Listen
noun
Pig  n.  (Written also pigg)  A piggin.


Pig  n.  
1.
The young of swine, male or female; also, any swine; a hog. "Two pigges in a poke."
2.
(Zool.) Any wild species of the genus Sus and related genera.
3.
An oblong mass of cast iron, lead, or other metal. See Mine pig, under Mine.
4.
One who is hoggish; a greedy person. (Low)
Masked pig. (Zool.) See under Masked.
Pig bed (Founding), the bed of sand in which the iron from a smelting furnace is cast into pigs.
Pig iron, cast iron in pigs, or oblong blocks or bars, as it comes from the smelting furnace. See Pig, 4.
Pig yoke (Naut.), a nickname for a quadrant or sextant.
A pig in a poke (that is, bag), a blind bargain; something bought or bargained for, without the quality or the value being known. (Colloq.)


verb
Pig  v. t. & v. i.  (past & past part. pigged; pres. part. pigging)  
1.
To bring forth (pigs); to bring forth in the manner of pigs; to farrow.
2.
To huddle or lie together like pigs, in one bed.





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"Pig" Quotes from Famous Books



... some in North Yorkshire before the war, in which the only chance for a Liberal candidate to have a meeting was to have it in the open-air, after dark on a night with no moon, and even then he needed a big voice—for his immediate audience was apt to be two dogs and a pig. Now, it seems to me that people like having political meetings going on, but do not bother to listen to ...
— Essays in Liberalism - Being the Lectures and Papers Which Were Delivered at the - Liberal Summer School at Oxford, 1922 • Various
... buried in church; no one cares about his grave! I put flowers on it, but the chickens run through the orchard and scratch them off; and one day the horrid black pig was grunting with his nose, and making a great hole in it! I wish he could have a tombstone; no one cares a bit, and they almost laugh if I say ...
— Odd • Amy Le Feuvre
... the fright still higher, he quotes an account of a pig's tail, scalded with tea, on which, however, he ...
— The Works of Samuel Johnson, Vol. 6 - Reviews, Political Tracts, and Lives of Eminent Persons • Samuel Johnson
... influence with McGee. He is proud of her education; and wants his children to follow after her, and not be raised as ignorant as himself. So perhaps the leaven in the lump will work. Only when he gets one of his pig-headed streaks on, nobody in the world can influence him, ...
— Chums in Dixie - or The Strange Cruise of a Motorboat • St. George Rathborne
... Well, as they fell I grabbed up a little hick'ry limb, not bigger 'n my two thumbs, and I struck Bills a little tap kind o' over the back of his head like, and blame me ef he didn't keel over like a stuck pig—and not any too soon, nuther, far he had Steve's chunk as nigh put out as you ever seed a man's, to come to agin. But he was up th'reckly and ready to a-went at it ef Bills could a-come to the scratch; but Mister Bills he wasn't in no fix to try it over! ...
— Pipes O'Pan at Zekesbury • James Whitcomb Riley


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