Definitions

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  • adjective Without a pig.

Etymologies

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pig +‎ -less

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Examples

  • If the only warm salad you know is the classic wilted spinach salad puddled in bacon dressing, this green bean salad is a lovely summer thing, bright, freshness, pigless and a breeze to make when it's too hot to hang out in the kitchen.

    Ellen Kanner: Meatless Monday: Storm the Bastille with Green Bean Salad (Recipe) 2009

  • And then PETA wold have to live in a pigless, chickenless and cowless world.

    Wired Top Stories 2008

  • Despite the folklore and the injunctions in his own Bible, William came to love their nobility and personal freedom, their gift for finding comfort in the mud on a hot day-pigs out on the road, in company together, were everything Boston wasn't, and you can imagine what the end of the journey, the weighing, slaughter and dreary pigless return back up into the hills must've been like for William.

    Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

  • —I’m talking about fakin’ bacon, pseudo-sausage, pigless pork chops, and the wave of wonderful new mock meats in supermarkets everywhere.

    Passover Pork | Jewschool 2004

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