PIG (pigged, pigging)

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pig mean? 

• PIG (noun)
  The noun PIG has 6 senses:

1. domestic swine

2. a coarse obnoxious person

3. a person regarded as greedy and pig-like

4. uncomplimentary terms for a policeman

5. mold consisting of a bed of sand in which pig iron is cast

6. a crude block of metal (lead or iron) poured from a smelting furnace

  Familiarity information: PIG used as a noun is common.

• PIG (verb)
  The verb PIG has 3 senses:

1. live like a pig, in squalor

2. eat greedily

3. give birth to (piglets)

  Familiarity information: PIG used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PIG (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Domestic swine

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

grunter; hog; pig; squealer; Sus scrofa

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 coarse obnoxious person

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

pig; slob; sloven; slovenly person

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)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A person regarded as greedy and pig-like

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

hog; pig

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 4

Meaning:

Uncomplimentary terms for a policeman

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

bull; cop; copper; fuzz; pig

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:

Mold consisting of a bed of sand in which pig iron is cast

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

pig; pig bed

Hypernyms ("pig" is a kind of...):

cast; mold; mould (container into which liquid is poured to create a given shape when it hardens)

Sense 6

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)

• PIG (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Live like a pig, in squalor

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

pig; pig it

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Eat greedily

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Synonyms:

devour; guttle; pig; raven

Context example:

he devoured three sandwiches

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:

Give birth to (piglets)

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

farrow; pig

Context example:

sows farrow

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)

 Context examples 

The meat quality of market-ready pigs from the glutamine group was no different than that of the antibiotic or control group.

(Antibiotic Alternative Scores Well in Second Round of Swine Trials, U.S. Department of Agriculture)

But to examine exactly how this tissue responds to increasing levels of GAGs, the researchers needed a greater amount of valve tissue than living pigs could provide.

(New Hope for Stopping An Understudied Heart Disease in Its Tracks, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

To please you I will change, and give you my fine fat pig for the cow.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

“I expected at least that the pigs were got into the garden, and here is nothing but Lady Catherine and her daughter.”

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

The experiments stem from the fact that humans share a lot of DNA with mammals, specifically pigs.

(Scientist Move Closer to Pig-human Organ Transplants, VOA)

A Yucatan or other pig breed that is bred specifically for its small size.

(Micropig, NCI Thesaurus)

It's named for a virus that pigs can get.

(H1N1 Flu (Swine Flu), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

A Yucatan, Gottingen, or other pig breed that is bred specifically for its small size.

(Minipig, NCI Thesaurus)

The Hampshire pig has black skin and hair covering most of its body with a white portion of skin covering its front limbs and back.

(Hampshire Pig, NCI Thesaurus)

The Gottingen pig has white skin and hair.

(Gottingen Pig, NCI Thesaurus)