# pig

Pronunciation: say "PIG" /pɪɡ/

## Noun

1. A hoofed mammal with bristly skin and a flat snout, especially the farm animal kept for meat; in farming, sometimes a young one.
   - Simple: An animal with a broad, flat nose, often kept on farms for meat.
   - _A pig can use its snout to dig up roots and grubs._
   - _The farm raised several pigs alongside its cattle._
2. The edible meat of a hog, prepared and sold as pork in cuts such as chops and bacon.
   - Simple: Meat from a hog, cooked and eaten as food like bacon, ham, or sausage.
   - _At the luau, guests piled their plates with tender roast pig, rice, and grilled pineapple._
   - _Some religions forbid eating pig, so the caterer offered chicken and lamb instead._
4. An insulting word for a person regarded as greedy, dirty or untidy, or very fat.
   - Simple: A rude word for someone who eats too much, is dirty or messy, or is very fat.
   - _She refused to share a dorm with such a pig, whose half of the room was always littered with trash._
   - _The landlord complained that the last tenants were pigs who left grime everywhere._
5. A hostile, insulting name for a police officer. *(slang)*
   - Simple: A rude, insulting word for a police officer.
   - _He spat insults as another pig stepped out of the patrol car._
   - _The crowd jeered, calling the officers pigs as they advanced._
7. A man who behaves in a lecherous or sexist way toward women.
   - Simple: A man who treats women badly and is rude or sexist toward them.
   - _She quit after her manager turned out to be a pig who leered at every female employee._
   - _Online, anonymous pigs flooded her posts with sexist comments._
6. An oblong block of cast metal, especially iron or lead, formed by pouring molten metal into a mold.
   - Simple: A long, thick block of metal made by pouring it hot into a mold.
   - _The foundry poured molten iron into a sand mold, and the finished pig was set aside for later refining._
   - _At the smelter, molten lead was cast into pigs that were stacked on pallets for shipping._
8. A task or problem that is awkward and difficult to deal with. *(colloquial)*
   - Simple: A task or problem that is very hard to deal with.
   - _Assembling the flat-pack wardrobe turned out to be a pig of a job._
   - _The merger paperwork was a pig, dragging on for months._
9. A mold into which molten metal is poured and cast into a solid block.
   - Simple: A mold used to shape a block of melted metal as it cools.
   - _Molten iron ran from the furnace into the pig along the casting floor._
   - _Once it cooled, the metal was knocked free of the pig._
11. A simple dice game in which players roll as often as they like, building a score or losing the points already gained.
   - Simple: A simple dice game where you keep rolling for points but risk losing them.
   - _A game of pig can swing wildly when a player pushes their luck on one more roll._
   - _They settled the argument with a quick round of pig._

## Verb

3. To eat greedily and without restraint, consuming a large amount of food in a short time. *(colloquial)*
   - Simple: To eat a lot of food quickly and greedily.
   - _After the marathon, the runners pigged out at the buffet._
   - _Whenever exams end, students pig out on junk food for days._
10. To give birth, especially of a sow bringing forth a litter of piglets.
   - Simple: To give birth to a litter of young, said of a female pig.
   - _The sow is due to pig before the end of the month._
   - _She pigged twelve healthy piglets last season._
12. To live or sleep crowded together in dirty, untidy conditions.
   - Simple: To live or sleep packed together in a dirty, messy place.

## Noun

13. A sixpence, the old British silver coin worth six pennies. *(obsolete, UK)*
   - Simple: An old British coin worth six pence, the sixpence.

## Other meanings

- (noun) A pale pinkish red resembling the color of a pig's skin; pig pink.
- (noun) A device sent through an oil or gas pipeline to clean it, inspect it, or separate different substances inside it.
- (verb) To clean a pipeline by sending a device called a pig through it.
- (noun) A slang term for a Harley-Davidson motorcycle, especially a big, heavy one.
- (noun) A slang term for a Cadillac, especially a big, luxurious model.
- (noun) The M60 general-purpose machine gun, regarded by troops as heavy and bulky.
- (noun) A thick-walled container, usually of lead, used to store or carry radioactive material and shield the people nearby.
- (noun) A storage pot or jar made of fired earthenware clay.
- (noun) An earthenware vessel filled with hot water and used to warm a bed.

## Origin

From Middle English pigge, originally a word for a young pig (adult pigs were called swyn, "swine"), apparently from Old English *picga and Proto-West Germanic *piggō or *puggō, meaning "piglet", with related forms in Middle Dutch and Middle Low German. The slang sense of "police officer" has been attested since at least 1811.

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