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The twelfth of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Any of several mammalian species of the family Suidae, having cloven hooves, bristles and a snout adapted for digging; especially the domesticated animal Sus domesticus.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
Synonyms: hog, suid, swine
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Any of several mammalian species of the family Suidae, having cloven hooves, bristles and a snout adapted for digging; especially the domesticated animal Sus domesticus.
A young swine, a piglet (contrasted with a hog, an adult swine).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, specifically, uncountable
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Synonyms: hog, suid, swine
Antonyms: none provided
noun
The edible meat of such an animal; pork.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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noun
A light pinkish-red colour, like that of a pig (also called pig pink).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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noun
A person:
Someone who overeats or eats rapidly and noisily.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, derogatory, figuratively, uncountable
Synonyms: belly-god, buzgut, cormorant, epicure, gannet, glutton, gorger, gourmand, gormandizer, greedyguts, guttle, hog, Homer Simpson, helluo, pig, slow belly, trencherman
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A person:
A lecherous or sexist man.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, derogatory, figuratively, uncountable
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noun
A person:
A dirty or slovenly person.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, derogatory, figuratively, uncountable
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noun
A person:
An obese person.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, derogatory, figuratively, uncountable
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Synonyms: All are derogatory unless otherwise labeled, butterball, chubbs, chubster, chunker, chunky monkey, elephant, fat, fatfuck, fatso, fattie, fatty, fatty bom bom, fatty boombalatty, fat-ass, fatass, fat fuck, fatshit, fussock, gorbelly, hambeast, hamplanet, heffalump, landwhale, lardass, lardbucket, lardo, oinker, obeast, pig, podge, porker, pudge, roly-poly, salad dodger, swagbelly, thunder thighs, tubbalard, tubba lard, tubbo, tub of guts, tub of lard, whale
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A person:
A police officer.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, derogatory, figuratively, slang, uncountable
Synonyms: 5-O, alphabet, barney, beatsman, bizzie, bluebottle, bluecoat, blue heeler, blue meanie, bobby, body snatcher, bogey, boy in blue, bull, bullyman, buttons, centenier, charpering omi, chazzer, cobbler, cop, copper, cozzer, cracker, crusher, crowns, dibble, fed, filth, finest, finger, five-o, flatfoot, flatty, fuzz, garda, gendarme, glowie, guardian of the peace, harman, harman-beck, Inspector Knacker, jack, jackboot, jake, John Law, John Q. Law, Johnny Hopper, lawman, mee-maw, monarch, Mr Plod, mutton shunter, nuthook, oinker, Officer Friendly, Old Bill, one-time, PC Plod, pig, piggy, peeler, plod, police, police officer, policeman, policeperson, polis, po-po, raw lobster, roller, rozzer, scufter, slop, swine, statie, twelve, tyre biter, unboiled lobster, walloper, wooden-top
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A difficult problem.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, informal, uncountable
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noun
An oblong block of cast metal (now only iron or lead).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
The mold in which a block of metal is cast.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
A lead container used for radioactive waste.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
A device for cleaning or inspecting the inside of an oil or gas pipeline, or for separating different substances within the pipeline. Named for the pig-like squealing noise made by their progress.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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noun
The general-purpose M60 machine gun, considered to be heavy and bulky.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, countable, slang, uncountable
Topics: government, military, politics, war
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A simple dice game in which players roll the dice as many times as they like, either accumulating a greater score or losing previous points gained.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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noun
A sixpence.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, countable, obsolete, slang, uncountable
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Synonyms: sow's baby
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A Cadillac car.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, countable, slang, uncountable
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noun
A Harley-Davidson motorcycle.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, countable, slang, uncountable
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noun
The victim of a pig butchering scam.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, slang, uncountable
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noun
An earthenware pot or jar
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland
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Synonyms: pigg
Antonyms: none provided
noun
An earthenware pot or jar
An earthenware vessel used as a hot-water bottle
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland, specifically
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Synonyms: pigg
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Persuade, Identify, GOTV, an electoral technique commonly employed in the United Kingdom.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Police in gear.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Acronym of pipe inspection gauge.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, countable, uncountable
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noun
Abbreviation of polyclonal immunoglobulin.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of
Topics: biology, medicine, natural-sciences, sciences
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verb
To give birth.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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verb
To greedily consume (especially food).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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verb
To huddle or lie together like pigs, in one bed.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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verb
To live together in a crowded filthy manner.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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verb
To clean (a pipeline) using a pig (the device).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Topics: engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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noun
domestic swine
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: hog, grunter, squealer, Sus scrofa
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: swine
Narrower terms: porker
noun
a crude block of metal (lead or iron) poured from a smelting furnace
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: ingot, metal bar, block of metal
noun
mold consisting of a bed of sand in which pig iron is cast
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: pig bed
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: mold, mould, cast
noun
uncomplimentary terms for a policeman
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: bull, cop, copper, fuzz
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: policeman, police officer, officer
noun
a person regarded as greedy and pig-like
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: hog
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: selfish person
noun
a coarse obnoxious person
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: slob, sloven, slovenly person
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: vulgarian
Narrower terms: litterer, litterbug, litter lout, slattern, slut, slovenly woman, trollop
verb
give birth
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: farrow
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: give birth, deliver, bear, birth, have
verb
eat greedily
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: devour, guttle, raven
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: eat
verb
live like a pig, in squalor
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: pig it
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: live
History
From Middle English pigge (“pig, piglet”) (originally a term for a young pig, with adult pigs being swyn (“swine”)), from Old English *picga, *pycga (attested in picgbrēad (“mast, pig-fodder”)), perhaps a diminutive of Proto-West Germanic *puk, *pūk (“pig”), which also gave rise to Middle Low German pûke, puyke (“pig, piglet”). Pokorny suggests this root might be somehow related to *bū-, *bew- (“to blow; swell”), which could account for the alternation between "pig" and "big". Compare Middle Dutch pogge, puggen, pigge, pegsken (> dialectal Dutch pogge (“piglet”)), Middle Low German pugge (> Westphalian German Low German Pogge, Pugge, Püggsken (“pig, piglet”)). A connection to early modern Dutch bigge (modern Dutch big (“piglet”)), West Frisian bigge (“piglet”), German Low German Bigge, Bigg (“piglet”), and Saterland Frisian Bikkie (“piggy”) is sometimes proposed, "but the phonology is difficult". Some sources say the words are "almost certainly not" related, others consider a relation "probable, but not certain". The slang sense of "police officer" is attested since at least 1785.
Possibly a transferred use of pig, because the vessel was thought to resemble the animal.
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