pig

  • 31pig — 1 noun (C) 1 ANIMAL a farm animal that is usually pink or black and has short legs, a fat body, and a curved tail see also: guinea pig (1) 2 PERSON spoken a) someone who eats too much or eats more than their share: Greedy pig, you ate all the… …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 32pig — 1. n. someone who eats too much; a glutton. □ Stop being a pig! Save some for other people. □ I try to cut down on calories, but whenever I see red meat I make a pig of myself. 2. n. an ugly and fat woman. □ Clare is a pig. Why doesn’t she lose a …

    Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions

  • 33pig it — verb live like a pig, in squalor • Syn: ↑pig • Derivationally related forms: ↑pig (for: ↑pig) • Hypernyms: ↑live • Verb Frames …

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  • 34pig — [13] The word pig is not recorded until the Middle English period, although it is assumed to have existed in Old English as *picga or *pigga. It originally meant ‘young pig’, and did not become the general term for ‘pig’ until the 16th century… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 35pig — [13] The word pig is not recorded until the Middle English period, although it is assumed to have existed in Old English as *picga or *pigga. It originally meant ‘young pig’, and did not become the general term for ‘pig’ until the 16th century… …

    Word origins

  • 36pig —  1. Policeman.  2. bleed like a (stuck) pig Bleed profusely.  3. pig in Eat.  4. pig it Live in dirty or disorderly conditions.  5. Armoured car. (Military.)  6. pig ignorant Very ignorant, pig s breakfast Mess. Muddle …

    A concise dictionary of English slang

  • 37pig — свинья; свинина fat type pig сальная свинья roasted pig жареная свинина to stick a pig заколоть свинью he is a greedy pig он жаден как свинья growing fattening pig откормочная свинья …

    English-Russian travelling dictionary

  • 38pig — noun 1 animal ADJECTIVE ▪ domestic ▪ feral, wild ▪ suckling VERB + PIG ▪ breed ▪ …

    Collocations dictionary

  • 39pig — n 1. a policeman or woman. An offensive term that gained its greatest currency in the 1960s in the USA whence it was reimported into Britain. (It was used in the same sense in the late Victorian underworld.) ► Today s pig is tomorrow s bacon.… …

    Contemporary slang

  • 40pig — [[t]pɪg[/t]] n. v. pigged, pig•ging 1) ahb. a young swine of either sex, esp. a domestic hog, Sus scrofa, weighing less than 120 lb. (54 kg) 2) any wild or domestic swine 3) the flesh of swine; pork 4) a person who is gluttonous, greedy, or… …

    From formal English to slang