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PIG
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Irregular inflected forms: pigged , pigging
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Domestic swine
Synonyms:
grunter; hog; pig; squealer; Sus scrofa
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("pig" is a kind of...):
swine (stout-bodied short-legged omnivorous animals)
Meronyms (parts of "pig"):
trotter (foot of a pig or sheep especially one used as food)
porc; pork (meat from a domestic hog or pig)
Meronyms (substance of "pig"):
lard (soft white semisolid fat obtained by rendering the fatty tissue of the hog)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pig"):
porker (a pig fattened to provide meat)
Holonyms ("pig" is a member of...):
genus Sus; Sus (type genus of the Suidae)
Derivation:
pig (give birth to (piglets))
pig (live like a pig, in squalor)
piglet (a young pig)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A crude block of metal (lead or iron) poured from a smelting furnace
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("pig" is a kind of...):
ingot (metal that is cast in the shape of a block for convenient handling)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Mold consisting of a bed of sand in which pig iron is cast
Synonyms:
pig; pig bed
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("pig" is a kind of...):
cast; mold; mould (container into which liquid is poured to create a given shape when it hardens)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Uncomplimentary terms for a policeman
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("pig" is a kind of...):
officer; police officer; policeman (a member of a police force)
Domain usage:
colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)
Sense 5
Meaning:
A person regarded as greedy and pig-like
Synonyms:
hog; pig
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("pig" is a kind of...):
selfish person (a person who is unusually selfish)
Derivation:
pig (eat greedily)
pig (live like a pig, in squalor)
piggy (resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy)
Sense 6
Meaning:
A coarse obnoxious person
Synonyms:
pig; slob; sloven; slovenly person
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("pig" is a kind of...):
vulgarian (a vulgar person (especially someone who makes a vulgar display of wealth))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pig"):
litter lout; litterbug; litterer (a person who litters public places with refuse)
slattern; slovenly woman; slut; trollop (a dirty untidy woman)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Give birth to (piglets)
Example:
sows farrow
Synonyms:
farrow; pig
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Hypernyms (to "pig" is one way to...):
bear; birth; deliver; give birth; have (cause to be born)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Derivation:
pig (domestic swine)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Eat greedily
Example:
he devoured three sandwiches
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Hypernyms (to "pig" is one way to...):
eat (take in solid food)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
pig (a person regarded as greedy and pig-like)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Live like a pig, in squalor
Synonyms:
pig; pig it
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Hypernyms (to "pig" is one way to...):
live (lead a certain kind of life; live in a certain style)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
Derivation:
pig (domestic swine)
pig (a person regarded as greedy and pig-like)
Context examples:
They carried off their wounded comrade—he was bleedin' like a pig—and then they sat around us, and if ever I saw frozen murder it was in their faces.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It was situated against the back of the cottage and surrounded on the sides which were exposed by a pig sty and a clear pool of water.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
So she took her pigs, said my aunt, to a foreign market; and a very bad market it turned out to be.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Some serotypes of A. pleuropneumoniae cause respiratory disease in pigs.
(Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae, NCI Thesaurus)
Having to do with or coming from pigs.
(Pig, NCI Dictionary)
The domestic pig Sus scrofa domestica.
(Pig, NCI Thesaurus)
At the door of a cottage I saw a little girl about to throw a mess of cold porridge into a pig trough.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
G. sulfidifaciens may occur in pairs, chains or singly and is most often isolated from ruminants and pigs and is not a noted human pathogen.
(Globicatella sulfidifaciens, NCI Thesaurus)
How d’ye find me aboard if ’twasn’t that I was drunk as a pig when I put me name down?
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
When the session with the guinea pigs began, however, skin conductance levels among the children with ASDs dropped significantly.
(Animals’ presence may ease social anxiety in kids with autism, NIH)
