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US
/ˈpɪɡ/
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[ UK /pˈɪɡ/ ]
[ UK /pˈɪɡ/ ]
NOUN
- uncomplimentary terms for a policeman
- mold consisting of a bed of sand in which pig iron is cast
- a crude block of metal (lead or iron) poured from a smelting furnace
- a coarse obnoxious person
- a person regarded as greedy and pig-like
- domestic swine
VERB
-
eat greedily
he devoured three sandwiches - live like a pig, in squalor
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give birth to (piglets)
sows farrow
How To Use pig In A Sentence
- Chlorophyll is only one of several pigments found in plants, but it is by far the most important.
- Anybody who has ever been on a North Queensland pastoral lease knows that you can go 20, 30, 40 miles day after day and all you will see is a few brumbies and some wild pigs; you will not see any cattle anywhere.
- Alaric got a bit annoyed at how long we took to leave becuase of the guinea pigs - I didn't know weather to be sympathetic or laugh when he got narky about it :/ Snell-Pym » Guinea Pigs!
- This softly pigmented wax will help shape brows and give them a bit more color to look fuller.
- And the fact is that women just dig men who see clips of defenseless mother pigs stuffed in crates so small that they can't turn around, and then blurt out, "But, I love me some bacon! Josh Tetrick: Five Reasons Why Man = Meat
- The use of steam-driven bellows in blast furnaces helped ironmakers switch over from charcoal (limited in quantity) to coke, which is made from coal, in the smelting of pig iron.
- Side effects of all topical treatments include allergic and contact dermatitis, depigmentation of surrounding normal skin, and postinflammatory hyperpigmentation.
- Galicians specialize in trencherman food: suckling pig, grilled skate, pulpy octopus speckled with sea salt and paprika.
- Other numerous species include the yellowbilled diver Gavia adamsii, whooper swan Cygnus cygnus, lesser whitefronted goose Anser erythropus, slatybacked gull Larus Schistisagus, Kamchatka tern Sterna camtschatica, guillemot Uria aalge, thickbilled guillemot Uria lomvia, pigeon guillemot Cepphus columbs, ancient murrelet Synthliboramphus antiquus, horned puffin Fratercula Corniculata and tufted puffin Lunda cirrhata. Volcanoes of Kamchatka, Russian Federation
- In the trees a pair of wood pigeons churred away happily.