pig
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Sense 1
- noun
- A1
A farm animal with a fat body, short legs, a flat round nose and a thin curly tail, kept for its meat.
Pigs are far cleaner animals than most people believe.
A pig uses its strong flat snout to dig up roots.
Six young pigs lay sleeping in a heap of straw.
Pigs cannot sweat, so they need shade in summer.
Common collocations: keep pigs · a herd of pigs · feed the pigs · wild pig · roast pig
Part of: Animals
Sense 2 · less common
- noun
- B1
A rude word for someone who eats too much, behaves badly or leaves a terrible mess.
Don't be such a pig — leave some cake for the others.
He ate the whole tray of biscuits, the greedy pig.
They left the kitchen like pigs and went to bed.
Common collocations: a greedy pig · don't be a pig · make a pig of yourself · eat like a pig
Part of: Personality, Talking to people
Forms
- plural
- pigs