pig

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Meaning

1. Any of several mammalian species of the genus Sus, having cloven hooves, bristles and a nose adapted for digging; especially the domesticated animal Sus domesticus.
2. Any of several mammalian species of the genus Sus, having cloven hooves, bristles and a nose adapted for digging; especially the domesticated animal Sus domesticus.
3. The edible meat of such an animal; pork.
4. A light pinkish-red colour, like that of a pig (also called pig pink).
5. Someone who overeats or eats rapidly and noisily.
6. A lecherous or sexist man.
7. A dirty or slovenly person.
8. An obese person.
9. (slang) A police officer.
10. (informal) A difficult problem.
11. An oblong block of cast metal (now only iron or lead).
12. The mold in which a block of metal is cast.
13. A lead container used for radioactive waste.
14. 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.
15. (slang) The general-purpose M60 machine gun, considered to be heavy and bulky.
16. 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.
17. (obsolete,slang) A sixpence.
18. (slang) A Cadillac car.
19. (slang) A Harley-Davidson motorcycle.

dirty person

slovenly person

Sus scrofa

fress

scarf out

vile person

porc

ingot bar

Sus scrofa domistica

boarp

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈpɪɡ/

From Middle English pigge (“pig, pigling”) (originally a term for a young pig, with adult pigs being swyn), apparently from Old English *picga (attested only in compounds, such as picgbrēad (“mast, pig-fodder”)), from Proto-West Germanic *piggō, *puggō (“piglet”). Compare Middle Dutch pogge, puggen, pigge, pegsken (“pigling”), Middle Low German pugge, pûke (“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". A connection to early modern Dutch bigge (contemporary big (“piglet”)), West Frisian bigge (“pigling”), and similar terms in Middle Low German 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.

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