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Piggy   /pˈɪgi/   Listen
Piggy

noun
1.
A young pig.  Synonyms: piglet, shoat, shote.
adjective
1.
Resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy.  Synonyms: hoggish, piggish, porcine, swinish.  "The piggy fat-cheeked little boy and his porcine pot-bellied father" , "Swinish slavering over food"



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"Piggy" Quotes from Famous Books



... caught it up in his arms, it began to squeal; and the mother, hearing it, ran after him with such a frightful noise, throwing up her great, savage tusks at him, that he dropped it, and ran for his life. She stopped to smell of Piggy, and see if it was hurt; and so he got away, though ...
— Our Young Folks, Vol 1, No. 1 - An Illustrated Magazine • Various

... the three lads were together upon the lawn, rolling a prickly, spiky hedgehog over and over in the vain hope of getting him to open out and show his black, bright little eyes, and sharp piggy like snout; all which time old Sam was busy at work, making his keen bright scythe shave off the little yellow-eyed daisies that seemed sprinkled all over the green turf that was so soft and elastic to ...
— Hollowdell Grange - Holiday Hours in a Country Home • George Manville Fenn

... piggy and went on a little further, till she met a dog. She said to him, "Dog, dog, bite pig; piggy won't go over the stile; and I sha'n't get home to-night." But the dog ...
— How to Tell Stories to Children - And Some Stories to Tell • Sara Cone Bryant

... and she met a dog. So she said to the dog: "Dog! bite pig; piggy won't go over the stile; and I shan't get home to-night." But ...
— English Fairy Tales • Joseph Jacobs (coll. & ed.)



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