pig

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  1. noun Any of several mammals of the family Suidae, having short legs, cloven hooves, bristly hair, and a cartilaginous snout used for digging, especially the domesticated hog, Sus scrofa domesticus, when young or of comparatively small size.
  2. noun The edible parts of one of these mammals.
  3. noun Informal A person regarded as being piglike, greedy, or gross.
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  • The price asked for the pig was a hatchet, and as these were scarce, it was not purchased. —  The Life of Captain James Cook
  • This pig was actually some peculiar breed of Arabian hog, it seemed, because he was quite old for a pig, a Methuselah among pigs indeed, and he showed no signs of being any older than when Monk had acquired him quite a while ago in Arabia. —  137 - The Man Who Was Scared
  • She doesn't mind being called a pig, heck, she even dresses up as one from time to time because she knows that the pig is a smart animal. —  Culinary Concoctions by Peabody
  • For those who don't know, the jowl of the pig is the part traditionally used for guanciale, —  Last Night's Dinner
  • This classic dehumanizing motif has its origins in the Middle Ages, though everybody knew that the pig was a forbidden animal to the Jews.
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  1. Middle English pigge, young pig, probably from Old English *picga.

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  1. Also dial. peg; early modern English pigge; from Middle English pigge, pygge = Dutch bigge, big = Low German bigge, a pig; origin obscure. An Anglo-Saxon *pecg is mentioned as occurring “in a charter of Swinford copied into the Liber Albus at Wells” (Skeat, on authority of Earle); but this is doubtful; an Anglo-Saxon *pecg would hardly produce the English form pig. Whether the word is related to Low German bigge, a little child, = Danish pige = Swedish piga = Icelandic pīka, a girl, is doubtful.
  2. from pig, n.
 

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