How do you use the word "pig" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "pig": Don't eat like a pig. It's not a pig; it's a monkey.

Pig Meaning

/pɪɡ/

Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

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

nounAny of several mammalian species of the family Suidae, having cloven hooves, bristles and a snout adapted for digging; especially the domesticated animal Sus domesticus., A young swine, a piglet (contrasted with a hog, an adult swine).

Sentence Examples

Don't eat like a pig.

It's not a pig; it's a monkey.

I bought a pig in a poke yesterday.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

hog slob devour

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

The farmer gave a bucket of slop to the hungry ____ that oinked loudly.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The farmer kept a small herd of ____ in the pen behind the barn for meat production.

Word Origin & History

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 Dutch bigge (modern Dutch big (“piglet”)), West Frisian bigge (“piglet”), German Low German Bigge, Bigg (“piglet”), and Saterland Frisian Bikkie (“piggy”) is sometimes proposed, "but the phonology is difficult". Some sources say the words are "almost certainly not" related, others consider a relation "probable, but not certain". The slang sense of "police officer" is attested since at least 1785.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"[…]and at the back a rambling courtledge of barns and walls, around which pigs and bare-foot children grunted in loving communion of dirt." — 1855, Charles Kingsley, “How Salvation Yeo Slew the King of the Gubbings”, in Westward Ho!: Or, The Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, […], volume II, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC, page 113:

"Weanlings grow into feeder pigs, and feeder pigs grow into slaughter hogs. […] Ultimately the end use for virtually all pigs and hogs is to be slaughtered for the production of pork and other products." — 2005 April, Live Swine from Canada, Investigation No. 731-TA-1076 (Final), publication 3766, April 2005, U.S. International Trade Commission, →ISBN, page I-9:

""Miss Chastene, could you fetch me out an extra plate of pig and biscuit. My partner can't do without your marvelous cooking."" — 2005, Ross Eddy Osborn, Thorns of a Tainted Rose, →ISBN, page 196:

"So far on the streets there's been a lot of metallic pink (the kind of pink as in the shade of pig you get, and this is exactly the shade of the diary I've been writing in) […]" — 2019, Bee Smith, Queen Bee's Party:

"There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down brothers on the instant replay" — 1971, Gil Scott-Heron, “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised”:

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