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Piggy   /pˈɪgi/   Listen
Piggy

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



... 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.)



Words linked to "Piggy" :   sucking pig, gluttonous, genus Sus, young mammal, pig, Sus



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