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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



... have pets, you see, and we keep 'em in the corn-barn, and call it the menagerie. Here you are. Isn't my guinea-pig a beauty?" and Tommy proudly presented one of the ugliest specimens of that pleasing ...
— Little Men - Life at Plumfield With Jo's Boys • Louisa May Alcott
... to rayport mesilf to that omahdaun ye're afther axin me, sor?" he said scornfully, tossing his head and leering out of his little pig eyes in the most comical way. "Faix, I'd rayther not, wid your favour, sor. I wouldn't demane mesilf by spakin' to the loikes ov ...
— Crown and Anchor - Under the Pen'ant • John Conroy Hutcheson
... had set aside for your college course. Use it for your musical tomfoolery if you insist, and then—get what living you can.' Which was severe but dignified, unpaternal yet patrician. But what does my governor do? That cantankerous, pig-headed old Philistine—God bless him!—he's got no sense of the respect a father owes to his offspring. Not an atom. You're simply a branch to be run on the lines of the old business, or be shut up altogether. And, by the way, Lancelot, he hasn't altered a jot ...
— Merely Mary Ann • Israel Zangwill
... answered Jimmy, mournfully. "He got off with more'n forty cents worth o' stuff—the old pig! I'll ...
— The Bishop's Shadow • I. T. Thurston
... I call first rate!" exclaimed he, when he had duly tested the bacon and the potatoes. "I shall be ready to hire out as a cook after this. That's tip-top bacon, and I respect the pig that left this leg I ...
— Little Bobtail - or The Wreck of the Penobscot. • Oliver Optic


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