pig

CEFRA1

/pɪɡ/

noun · verb

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  1. 01

    noun

    A farm animal with a short nose and rounded body.

  2. 02

    verb

    To eat greedily or behave selfishly.

Examples

  • I bought a pig in a poke yesterday.

  • It's not a pig; it's a monkey.

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

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noun

Extra meanings

  1. The edible meat of such an animal; pork.

  2. Any of several mammalian species of the family Suidae, having cloven hooves, bristles and a snout adapted for digging; especially the domesticated animal Sus domesticus.

  3. A light pinkish-red colour, like that of a pig (also called pig pink).

More examples

In context

  • Don't eat like a pig.

  • Some religions prohibit their adherents from eating pig.

  • The man kept a pen with two pigs that he fed everything from carrots to cabbage.

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

From Middle English pigge (“pig, piglet”) (originally a term for a young pig, with adult pigs being swyn (“swine”)), from Old English *picga, *pycga (attested in picgbrēad (“mast, pig-fodder”)), perhaps a diminutive of Proto-West Germanic *puk, *pūk (“pig”), which also gave rise to Middle Low German pûke, puyke (“pig, piglet”). Pokorny suggests this root might be somehow related to *bū-, *bew- (“to blow; swell”), which could account for the alternation between "pig" and "big". Compare Middle Dutch pogge, puggen, pigge, pegsken (> dialectal Dutch pogge (“piglet”)), Middle Low German pugge (> Westphalian German Low German Pogge, Pugge, Püggsken (“pig, piglet”)). A connection to early modern D...