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Definition: Piggy |
PiggyAdjective1. Resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy; "piggish table manners"; "the piggy fat-cheeked little boy and his porcine pot-bellied father"; "swinish slavering over food". Noun1. A young pig. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "piggy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1840. (references) |
Synonyms: PiggySynonyms: hoggish (adj), piggish (adj), porcine (adj), swinish (adj), piglet (n), shoat (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Piggy |
| English words defined with "piggy": hoggish ♦ piggish, porcine ♦ swinish. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | You know what? We're kind of like Kermit and Miss Piggy, too, aren't we (Caroline in the City; writing credit: Angela Carneiro) Poor piggy. (Charmed; writing credit: Colman deKay) I went into show business when I was seven years old. Two days later the first comic I ever met stole my piggy bank in a railroad station in Portland (Lady of Burlesque; writing credit: James Gunn; Gypsy Rose Lee) Miss Piggy. (The Great Muppet Caper; writing credit: Jerry Juhl; Tom Patchett) Gee, thanks Piggy but I didn't order anything (Muppet Babies; writing credit: Katherine Lawrence; Jeffrey Scott) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Great Piggy Bank Robbery (1946) Porkuliar Piggy (1944) This Little Piggy (2001) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
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| "Piggy bank" by Justin Bird Commentary: "Plastic piggy bank." | "Miss piggy" by Uschi Hering Commentary: "... let us sleep!." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| "Piggy" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 94.53% of the time. "Piggy" is used about 201 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 94.53% | 190 | 22,288 |
| Noun (proper) | 5.47% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Total | 100.00% | 201 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "piggy": piggy backing ♦ piggy bank. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "piggy": piggy-back, piggy-backing, piggy-bank, piggy-banks, piggy-eyed, piggy-in-a-poke, piggy-in-the-middle, piggy-pink, piggy-wig, piggy-wiggy. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
piggy bank | 1,735 | this little piggy wear cotton | 10 |
piggy | 1,221 | antique bank piggy | 10 |
miss piggy | 300 | baby piggy bank | 10 |
piggy back | 198 | kid piggy bank | 10 |
girl piggy | 52 | piggy bank picture | 10 |
personalized piggy bank | 43 | large piggy bank | 9 |
ceramic piggy bank | 38 | kermit miss piggy | 8 |
back piggy ride | 37 | bank glass piggy | 8 |
this little piggy | 32 | muppets miss piggy | 8 |
miss piggy picture | 26 | don fat feed piggy t | 8 |
dont fat feed piggy that | 26 | fly lord piggy | 8 |
piggy bank for child | 24 | picture piggy | 8 |
plastic piggy bank | 20 | piggy pie | 8 |
piggy ride | 15 | miss pic piggy | 7 |
ho ho piggy | 15 | opera piggy three | 7 |
don fat feed piggy t that | 15 | bank craft piggy | 7 |
silver piggy bank | 13 | piggy bank wholesale | 7 |
little piggy | 12 | miss piggy watch | 7 |
ms piggy | 12 | chez piggy | 6 |
back loan piggy | 12 | back mortgage piggy | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "piggy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | gic (piglet, sucking pig), derrkuc (piggy-wiggy). (various references) | |
Arabic | نهم (avid, cormorant, gluttonous, gluttony, gourmand, insatiable, insatiate, lickerish, open mouthed, pig, ravenous, straggling, voracious, voracity), خنزير صغير (jack, piglet), اكول, أصبع (digit, finger). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | свинче, прасенце (pig, piggywiggy, shoat), подобен на свинче. (various references) | |
Chinese | 贪心 (insatiable). (various references) | |
Czech | prasátko (piggybank, Pigling, porkling). (various references) | |
Danish | uautoriseret adgang ved anvendelse af en anden brugers legale adgang (piggy-back entry, piggy-back infiltration), huckepack-korridor (piggy-back transport corridor), huckepack (piggy-back transport). (various references) | |
Dutch | piggy back-infiltratie (piggy-back entry, piggy-back infiltration), opzetprentplaat (piggy board, satellite board), gecombineerd weg-spoor vervoer (piggy backing, piggy-back transport, piggybacking), gecombineerd weg-rail vervoer (piggy backing, piggy-back transport, piggybacking), corridor voor gecombineerd vervoer (piggy-back transport corridor). (various references) | |
Finnish | "reppuselässä" tunkeutuminen (piggy-back entry, piggy-back infiltration). (various references) | |
French | porcin, petit cochon (piglet). (various references) | |
German | Schweinchen (little pig, mucky pup, piggies, piggy-wiggy, piglet, shoat). (various references) | |
Greek | γουρανάκι, γουρουνάκι (pig, piglet). (various references) | |
Hebrew | חזירון (piglet), חזרזיר (piglet, small pig). (various references) | |
Hungarian | mohó (avaricious, avid, be greedy, concupisible, covetous, eager, esurient, gluttonous, grasping, greedy, to gloat over sg, voracious), kismalac (pig, piggy-wiggy, piglet, squealer), falánk (Edacious, esurient, gluttonous, gourmand, hoggish, piggish, ravening, ravenous, voracious). (various references) | |
Indonesian | celengan (money box, piggy bank, saving). (various references) | |
Italian | porcellino (little pig, piglet), maialino (piglet). (various references) | |
Korean | 돼지 같은. (various references) | |
Manx | markiagh er mooin (piggy-back), markiagh drommey (piggy-back). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | iggypay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | porquinho (piggy-wiggy, piglet, pigling), leitão (pig, piggy-wiggy, piglet, pigling, porker, sucker, sucking-pig), bacorinho (piggy-wiggy, pigling, sucker, sucking-pig), bácoro (pig, piggy-wiggy, sucker, sucking-pig). (various references) | |
Romanian | purceluş, purcel (pig, piglet, Pigling, porkling), porcuşor (gudgeon, piglet, Pigling), murdar (base, basely, bawdy, dingy, dirty, dungy, filthy, foul, foully, frowzy, greasy, grimy, grubby, impure, mangy, messy, nasty, piggish, poky, scurrilous, seedy, shabby, slimy, slovenly, smeary, smutty, soppy, sordid, sordidly, squalid, Tarry, thick, unclean, untidy), de porc (piggish, porky). (various references) | |
Russian | свинка (mumps, piggywiggy). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | prasence (piggywiggy, pigling), prase (pig, piglet, squeaker), gica (piggywiggy, squeaker). (various references) | |
Spanish | lechón (piglet, sucking pig), cochinillo (pig, piglet, shoat, shote, sucking pig), cerdito (piglet). (various references) | |
Swedish | nasse, griskulting (piglet, sucking pig), glupsk (avid, edacious, glutenous, gluttonous, greedy, open mouthed, piggish, ravenous, voracious). (various references) | |
Turkish | minik domuz, domuzcuk, domuz biçiminde, çelik çomak oyunu. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | свинячий (piggish, porcine), порося (piggy-wiggy, shoat, shote). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | con lợn con trò chơi đánh khăng. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "piggy": piggyback, piggybacked, piggybacking, piggybacks. (additional references) | |
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"Piggy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: iggy, Igy, jiggy, Paggi, Peggo, peggy, Pegi, Peigi, Pgii, pidgie, piggies, Piggly, pigh, pigi, pigry, pigy, pingy, pioggia, pogg, Poggi, prigy, Puggy, pugy, tiggy, wiggy. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "piggy" (pronounced pi"gē) |
| 3 | -i" g ē | biggie, Twiggy. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-g-i-p-y" | |
-2 letters: gig, gip, gyp, pig, yip. | |
-3 letters: pi. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-g-i-p-y" | |
+2 letters: gypping, piggery, spriggy. | |
+3 letters: gapingly, gipsying, gypsying, priggery. | |
+4 letters: piggishly, piggyback. | |
+5 letters: graspingly, grippingly, hypnagogic, hypnogogic, oligophagy, piggybacks, priggishly. | |
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