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Definition: Pig |
PigNoun1. Domestic swine. 2. A coarse obnoxious person. 3. A person regarded as greedy and pig-like. 4. (informal) 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. Verb1. Live like a pig, in squalor. 2. Eat greedily. 3. Birth; of sows. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "pig" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
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Satire | PIG, n. An animal (Porcus omnivorus) closely allied to the human race by the splendor and vivacity of its appetite, which, however, is inferior in scope, for it sticks at pig. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of a fat, healthy pig, denotes reasonable success in affairs. If they are wallowing in mire, you will have hurtful associates, and your engagements will be subject to reproach. This dream will bring to a young woman a jealous and greedy companion though the chances are that he will be wealthy. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Energy | A colloquial term describing a container (usually lead or depleted uranium) used to ship or store radioactive materials. The thick walls of this shielding device protect the person handling the container from radiation. Large containers used for spent fuel storage are commonly called casks. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | An animal of the porcine species, of any age, kept for breeding or fattening. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Pig (The) was held sacred by the ancient Cretans, because Jupiter was suckled by a sow; it was immolated in the mysteries of Eleusis; was sacrificed to Hercules, to Venus, the Lares (2 syl.), and all those who sought relief from bodily ailments. The sow was sacrificed to Ceres (2 syl.), "because it taught men to turn up the earth;" and in Egypt it was slain on grand weddings on account of its fecundity. Pig In the forefeet of pigs is a very small hole, which may be seen when the hair has been carefully removed. The tradition is that the legion of devils entered by these apertures. There are also round it some six rings, the whole together not larger than a small spangle; they look as if burnt or branded into the skin, and the tradition is that they are the marks of the devil's claws when he entered the swine (Mark v. 11-15). (See Christian Traditions .) Riding on a pig. It was Jane, afterwards Duchess of Gordon, who, in 1770, undertook for a wager to ride down the High Street of Edinburgh, in broad day-light, on the back of a pig, and she won her bet. Some men there are love not a gaping pig (Merchant of Venice, iv. 1). Marshal d'Albert always fainted at the sight of a roast sucking pig. (See Antipathy, Cat.) The same is said of Vaugheim, the renowned Hanoverian huntsman. Keller used to faint at the sight of smoked bacon. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Metallurgy | An ingot of virgin or secondary metal(as rejected castings and scrap)to be remelted for use. In english the term "pig" is widely used and includes iron and non-ferrous materials cast into sand or metal moulds provided that it is intended for remelting before use. In french the word "gueuse" is restricted to virgin iron. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. A crude casting of metal convenient for storage, transportation, or melting; esp. one of standard size and shape for marketing run directly from the smelting furnace. CF:ingot b. A mold or channel in a pig bed c. A heavily shielded container (usually lead) used to ship or to store radioactive materials. d. An air manifold having a number of pipes which distribute compressedair coming through a single large line. (references) |
Multilingual Slang | Bielorussian (svinnia ), Norwegian (svin), Polish (prosiak), Quebecois (cochon). (references) |
Public Administration | A scraper is a drilling tool used to remove cement, burrs, other debris and imperfections from inside casing, and preserve a clear, smooth bore(1). Source: European Union. (references) |
Slang in 1811 | PIG. A police officer. A China street pig; a Bow-street officer. Floor the pig and bolt; knock down the officer and run away. PIG. Sixpence, a sow's baby. Pig-widgeon; a simpleton. To pig together; to lie or sleep together, two or more in a bed. Cold pig; a jocular punishment inflicted by the maid seryants, or other females of the house, on persons lying over long in bed: it con. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The domestic pig is usually given the scientific name Sus scrofa, though some authors call it S. domesticus, reserving S. scrofa for the wild boar. It has been a domesticated animal for approximately 5,000 to 7,000 years. The animal is found across Europe, the Middle East and extends into Asia as far as Indonesia and Japan. The distinction between wild and domestic animals is slight, and domestic pigs have become feral in many parts of the world (for example, New Zealand); feral pigs can cause substantial environmental damage. The family Suidae also includes about 12 separate species of wild pig, most also classified in the genus Sus.
Pig
Larger sow with piglet
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Artiodactyla Family: Suidae Genus: Sus species: scrofa (or domesticus) Binomial name '' Sus scrofa'' Sus scrofa has four subspecies, each occupying distinct geographical areas. They are Sus scrofa scrofa (western Africa, Europe), Sus scrofa ussuricus (northern Asia and Japan), Sus scrofa cristatus (Asia Minor, India), and Sus scrofa vittatus (Indonesia).
Many different words in English identify different types of pig:
Pigs (or swine) that are allowed to forage may be watched by swineherds. A litter of piglets typically contains between 10 and 12 animals. Meat from pigs is called pork in general and ham, bacon or bologna in some cases. Their trotters are often sold as the jelly-like dish of pig's feet. Hog jowls are a popular soul food. The American pig-raising industry calls pork a white meat, as opposed to beef; "white meat" (such as poultry) is often considered healthier than "red meat." Both Islam and Orthodox Judaism forbid the eating of pork in any form, considering the animal to be unclean: no form of pig meat can be kosher or halal.
- adult male pigs are called boars
- adult females are called sows
- juvenile animals are called piglets and farrows
- young pigs between 100-180 pounds are called shoats
- a gilt is an immature female pig
- a barrow is a castrated male pig
- hog is used as a synonym of pig in the United States; in its original sense it means a castrated boar.
- swine is a plural noun meaning pigs
While pigs are raised mostly for meat, their skin is used as a source of leather. Their bristly hairs are also traditionally used for brushes.
Pigs, like humans, are omnivores, making them easy to raise: on a small farm or in a large household they can be fed kitchen scraps as part or all of their diet.
Pigs are the only mammal not to have sweat glands.
Miscellaneous
The pig is one of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar. Believers in Chinese astrology associate each animal with certain personality traits. See: Pig (Zodiac).Zhu Bajie is a famous monster pig in the Chinese novel Journey to the West.
Pigs are commonly associated with greed and with dirt; the latter probably comes from their habit of wallowing in mud.
See also
- hog lot
- List of fictional pigs
Photos of pigs and piglets
Larger piglets Larger more piglets
Larger physiologist with piglets Larger sow and five piglets
Larger piglet Larger pig litter Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Pig."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The Pig is one of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar. It is thought that each animal is associated with certain personality traits.People who have this Chinese sign are:
See also: pig
- Lisa Barbuscia, actress
- Josh Lucas, actor
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Pig (Zodiac)."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
PIG | English | Pigfish | Food & Agriculture, Biology & Biotechnology |
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Synonyms: PigSynonyms: bull (n), cop (n), copper (n), fuzz (n), grunter (n), hog (n), pig bed (n), slob (n), sloven (n), slovenly person (n), squealer (n), devour (v), farrow (v), gulp (v), guttle (v), pig it (v), raven (v). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: scratcher (public administration, mining). |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Animal | Horse. (beast of burden); cattle, kine, ox; bull, bullock; cow, milch cow, calf, heifer, shorthorn; sheep; lamb, lambkin; ewe, ram, tup; pig, swine, boar, hog, sow; steer, stot; tag, teg; bison, buffalo, yak, zebu, dog, cat. |
Assemblage | Verb: assemble, collect, muster; meet, unite, join, rejoin; cluster, flock, swarm, surge, stream, herd, crowd, throng, associate; congregate, conglomerate, concentrate; precipitate; center round, rendezvous, resort; come together, flock get together, pig together; forgather; huddle; reassemble. |
Experiment | Subject, experimentee, guinea pig, experimental animal. |
Failure | Miss, miss one's aim, miss the mark, miss one's footing, miss stays; slip, trip, stumble; make a slip; n. blunder; make a mess of, make a botch of; bitch it, miscarry, abort, go up like a rocket and come down like the stick, come down in flames, get shot down, reckon without one's host; get the wrong pig by the tail, get the wrong sow by the ear; (blunder, mismanage). |
Imbecility Folly | Weak headed, addle headed, puzzle headed, blunder headed, muddle headed, muddy headed, pig headed, beetle headed, buffle headed, chuckle headed, mutton headed, maggoty headed, grossheaded; beef headed, fat witted, fat-headed. |
Intention | Speculation, venture, stake, game of chance; mere shot, random shot; blind bargain, leap in the dark; pig in a poke; (uncertainty); fluke, potluck; faro bank; flyer; limit. |
Speculate, try one's luck, set on a cast, raffle, put into a lottery, buy a pig in a poke, shuffle the cards. | |
Rashness | Take a leap in the dark, buy a pig in a poke. |
Receptacle | Cistern; (store); vat, caldron, barrel, cask, drum, puncheon, keg, rundlet, tun, butt, cag, firkin, kilderkin, carboy, amphora, bottle, jar, decanter, ewer, cruse, caraffe, crock, kit, canteen, flagon; demijohn; flask, flasket; stoup, noggin, vial, phial, cruet, caster; urn, epergne, salver, patella, tazza, patera; pig gin, big gin; tyg, nipperkin, pocket pistol; tub, bucket, pail, skeel, pot, tankard, jug, pitcher, mug, pipkin; galipot, gallipot; matrass, receiver, retort, alembic, bolthead, capsule, can, kettle; bowl, basin, jorum, punch bowl, cup, goblet, chalice, tumbler, glass, rummer, horn, saucepan, skillet, posnet, tureen. |
Sensualist | Noun: Sybarite, voluptuary, Sardanaphalus, man of pleasure, carpet knight; epicure, epicurean, gourmet, gourmand; pig, hog; votary of Epicurus, swine of Epicurus; sensualist; Heliogabalus; free liver, hard liver; libertine; hedonist; tragalist. |
Size | Large as life; plump as a dumpling, plump as a partridge; fat as a pig, fat as a quail, fat as butter, fat as brawn, fat as bacon. |
Smoothness | Phrase: smooth as silk;Phrase: smooth as silk; slippery as coonshit on a pump handle; slippery as a greased pig. |
Ugliness | Eyesore, object, witch, hag, figure, sight, fright; monster; dog, woofer, pig; octopus, specter, scarecrow, harridan, satyr, toad, monkey, baboon, Caliban, Aesop, "monstrum horrendum informe ingens cui lumen ademptum". |
Uncertainty | Vagueness; Adjective: haze, fog; obscurity; (darkness); ambiguity; (double meaning); contingency, dependence, dependency, double contingency, possibility upon a possibility; open question; (question); onus probandi; blind bargain, pig in a poke, leap in the dark, something or other; needle in a haystack, needle in a bottle of hay; roving commission. |
Unskillfulness | Mistake; take the shadow for the substance; (credulity); bark up the wrong tree; be in the wrong box, aim at a pigeon and kill a crow; take the wrong pig by the tail, get the wrong pig by the tail, get the wrong sow by the ear, get the dirty end of the stick; put the saddle on the wrong horse, put a square peg into a round hole, put new wine into old bottles. |
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Screenplays | Well slatted pig, there are standard issues (Toy Story 2; writing credit: John Lasseter; Peter Docter) Much better than you, you stinking Irish pig. (The Untouchables; writing credit: Oscar Fraley; Eliot Ness) Ah, so by that rationale, if a pig had a better personality, it'd cease to be a filthy animal (Pulp Fiction; writing credit: Quentin Tarantino; Roger Avary) As in the words of Porky pig, pi pi pi pi piss off Lou (Mrs. Doubtfire; writing credit: Randi Mayem Singer) It's possible, pig. I might be bluffing (The Princess Bride; writing credit: William Goldman) | |
Lyrics | I cooked a pig in the ground, we got some beer on ice ("All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight"; performing artist: Hank Williams Jr.) I got my grub on, but didn't pig out (It Was a Good Day; performing artist: Ice Cube) I can smell a pig from a mile away (Cowboy; performing artist: KID ROCK) You pig out 'til you've seen the light (Twist in my Sobriety; performing artist: Tanita Tikaram) O what a pig, she's such a pig (The Death Of Suzzy Roche; performing artist: The Roches) | |
Clever | Never wrestle with a pig. You both get all dirty, and the pig likes it. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Erotic Memoirs of a Male Chauvinist Pig (1973) Daffy Duck and Porky Pig Meet the Groovie Goolies (1972) In the Year of the Pig (1969) The Pig and Whistle (1967) Pig in a Pickle (1954) | |
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 | Pictured is an experimental miniature pig. The experimental animal is being held in place by rubber-tube covered arms in a laboratory setting. Some cans are visible on shelves behind the animal. The miniature pig has an unusually thick placenta that prevents sow's immune system from influencing that of offspring. Raised in a sterile environment, such piglets are vital in providing clues as to how the immune system develops. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer). |  | The photo shows an adult, black and white guinea pig with three young. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |
 | 26' plastic pig at the end of a hydrographic survey line Approaching the northwest tip of Congo Cay Launch off of WHITING. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Plastic Pig on line WHITING launch in Pillsbury Sound. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | 4H boy showing pig. Credit: USDA. |  | Farmer with playful pig. Credit: USDA. |
 | At Howard University in Washington, D.C., chemist George Gassner records information as animal scientist Al Mitchell (left) and university scientist Hua Fu Song examine a cross-sectional magnetic resonance image from the abdominal area of a pig. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |  | Pig litter. Credit: USDA ARS News. |
 | View of #2 (left) and #1 (right) furnaces with crane track. Photograph by Jack E. Boucher, April 1974. (Reproduction Number: HAER, ALA, 37-WOOD,1-13) Rich in the primary ingredients for making iron—iron ore, coal and limestone—central Alabama has been a center of iron production since before the Civil War. Many railroad companies and iron manufacturers set up shop in Jefferson County, and the region's iron ore made the city of Birmingham famous for high-quality foundry iron. The Woodward Iron Company established the first iron furnaces in the Bessemer area just south of Birmingham in the 1880s. By 1966, the company had become one of the largest independent manufacturers of pig iron in the United States. The furnaces shown here were demolished in 1974-75. (See HABS/HAER, National Park Service for more history.). Credit: Library of Congress. |  | [Guinea pig section]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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| "Pig meat" by Michel Marcon Commentary: "Chops of pig meat." | "Pig" by Mike Berg Commentary: "Nebaj farmland." |
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 | Pig grunting, chicken clucking, dog barking, and other animals vocalizing in the barnyard. | | Pig grunting and squealing. |
| Pig grunting in fear. | | Pig grunting. |
| Pig grunting. | | Pig snorting. |
| Pig grunt. | | Pig grunt. |
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Mencius | To raise a son without learning is raising an ass; to raise a daughter without learning is raising a pig. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Alice in Wonderland | Carroll, Lewis | PIG AND PEPPER |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He defended a rabbit warren against rats, with nothing but the odour of a little Barbary pig that he placed there |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | I call him a pig. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Looked like a pig. |
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Health | For example, scientists have been able to alter genes in the heart of a pig to diminish the immune system reaction in a baboon. (references) | |
They usually do not last more than a couple of months, dying out after the majority of the pig amplifying hosts have become infected. (references) | ||
In one preliminary clinical trial, doctors have begun transplanting fetal pig neurons that produce GABA into the brains of patients to learn whether the cell transplants can help control seizures. (references) | ||
Economic History | Vanuatu | The triangle remaining is black with a yellow pig tusk curved around crossed palm fronds. (references) |
Taiwan | However, in 2000, sluggish economic performance and an increased pig crop depressed both domestic pig prices and import demand. (references) | |
Pakistan | Pakistan Steel produces coke, pig iron, billets, hot and cold rolled coils and sheets, and galvanized sheets. (references) | |
Minorities | Czech Republic | In 1974 a pig farm was built on the site of the camp; both Roma and the Human Rights Commission have called for its removal. (references) |
India | On March 21, in Punjab a Koran was burned and pig parts were thrown into a mosque by members of a Hindu group in a attempt to enrage Muslims. (references) | |
Trade | Bangladesh | Other items completely banned on either religious/social/health grounds or on economic grounds in the case of textile products that compete directly with locally produced items, including: live pigs, pig and poultry fat, eggs (except hatching eggs), poppy seeds and dried posto dana, marijuana, opium, tendu leaves, lard, lard and tallow oil, solid or semi-solid palm oil, raw sugar, un-denatured ethyl alcohol (80.0% or higher) and other spirits denatured of any strength, wine, artificial mustard oil, selected petroleum products, woven fabrics of silk or silk waste, pig hair, some kinds of cloth, selected insecticides, nylon and polyethylene ropes, fishing nets (gillnets), used or new rags, vessels more than 15 years old, motorbikes more than three years old, and single phase electricity meters. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | EPIGRAM, n. A short, sharp saying in prose or verse, frequently characterize by acidity or acerbity and sometimes by wisdom. Following are some of the more notable epigrams of the learned and ingenious Dr. Jamrach Holobom: We know better the needs of ourselves than of others. To serve oneself is economy of administration. In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity. There are three sexes; males, females and girls. Beauty in women and distinction in men are alike in this: they seem to be the unthinking a kind of credibility. Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of. While your friend holds you affectionately by both your hands you are safe, for you can watch both his. |
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Joan Rivers | I was glad I got out when I got out. I don't care if you're a big, disgusting fat pig, that your father made out with you, get over it and get a life and get some dentures and get a job. |
Julia Child | You want to keep the mouth open so that you can put an apple in. So I just use a ball of aluminum foil. I'm going to stick that in the mouth, and that keeps the mouth open while the pig is roasting. |
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| "Pig" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 93.23% of the time. "Pig" is used about 1,122 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) | 93.23% | 1,046 | 7,128 |
| Noun (proper) | 4.27% | 48 | 49,194 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 2.14% | 24 | 71,196 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.36% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,122 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "pig": A pig in a poke ♦ acid Bessemer pig iron ♦ basic Bessemer pig iron ♦ Bessemer pig iron ♦ bleed like a pig ♦ bring one's pig to the wrong market ♦ bush pig ♦ buy a pig in a poke ♦ charcoal pig iron ♦ christmas pig ♦ cinder pig ♦ dirty pig ♦ Earth pig ♦ eat like a pig ♦ electric pig ♦ fat as a pig ♦ fattening pig ♦ feral pig ♦ flying pig ♦ genetically engineered pig ♦ greedy pig ♦ Ground pig ♦ guinea pig ♦ hematite pig iron ♦ like a stuck pig ♦ little pig ♦ live like pig ♦ make a pig of oneself ♦ male chauvinist pig ♦ malleable pig iron ♦ Masked pig ♦ mine pig ♦ mysterious pig disease ♦ mystery pig disease ♦ new pig disease ♦ phosphoric pig iron ♦ pig bed ♦ pig breeding ♦ pig farm ♦ pig fat ♦ pig feed ♦ pig flu ♦ pig in a poke ♦ pig industry ♦ pig influenza ♦ pig iron ♦ pig it ♦ pig latin ♦ pig laurel ♦ pig lead ♦ pig metal ♦ pig oneself ♦ pig out ♦ pig pox ♦ pig scraper ♦ pig swill ♦ pig tail ♦ pig tapeworm ♦ pig together ♦ pig typhoid ♦ pig yoke ♦ pork pig ♦ puffing pig ♦ raw pig ♦ razorback pig ♦ roast pig ♦ sea pig ♦ silvery pig iron ♦ slaughter pig ♦ slippery as a greased pig ♦ small pig ♦ sow in pig ♦ specular pig iron ♦ stick a pig ♦ store pig ♦ sucking pig ♦ suckling pig ♦ Thomas pig iron ♦ To boy a pig a poke ♦ water pig ♦ wild pig ♦ young pig. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "pig": pig-a-back, pig-bin, pig-boat, pig-brained, pig-breeder, pig-butcher, pig-eared, Pig-eyed, pig-faced, pig-fancier, pig-farm, pig-farmer, pig-farming, pig-filthy, pig-footed, Pig-headed, pig-headedly, Pig-headedness, pig-hesded, pig-hut, pig-ignorant, pig-in-a-poke, pig-in-the-middle, pig-iron, Pig-jawed, pig-keeping, pig-killings, pig-like, pig-lovers, pig-nests, pig-offal, pig-out, pig-outs, pig-pen, pig-pens, Pig-pig, pig-raising, pig-roast, pig-shaped, pig-sick, pig-skin, pig-sticker, Pig-sticking, pig-sties, pig-store, pig-sty, pig-stye, pig-styes, pig-swill, pig-tail, pig-tailed, pig-tails, pig-trough, pig-ugly, pig-woman, pig-yard. | |
Ending with "pig": guinea-pig, Sheep-pig. | |
Containing "pig": Guinea-pig director, slaughtered-pig-like. | |
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| 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 |
pig | 54,265 | guinea pig cage | 130 |
guinea pig | 3,312 | pot bellied pig | 129 |
pig figurine | 1,464 | pig roasting | 127 |
porky pig | 838 | pig pen | 125 |
pig roast | 677 | pig clipart | 97 |
pig picture | 586 | bay of pig invasion | 94 |
pig collectible | 445 | pig roaster | 92 |
bay of pig | 385 | pig clip art | 91 |
three little pig | 354 | pig in a blanket | 86 |
4 pig | 315 | fetish pig | 84 |
flying pig | 286 | potbelly pig | 83 |
fetal pig dissection | 244 | pass the pig | 79 |
cartoon pig | 214 | anatomy pig | 78 |
pot belly pig | 212 | pig photo | 78 |
guinea pig picture | 199 | game pen pig | 73 |
care of guinea pig | 182 | pig farm | 73 |
latin pig | 163 | guinea pig information | 72 |
fetal pig | 150 | guinea pig sound | 72 |
dissection pig | 141 | new pig | 69 |
sex pig | 138 | guniea pig | 65 |
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| Language | Translations for "pig"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | vark (hog, swine), swyn (hog, swine). (various references) | |
Albanian | pjell (bring forth, calve, farrow, fawn, foal, gender, give birth, increase, litter, procreate, produce, whelp), thi, njeri i ndyrë, mish derri (pork), metal i derdhur, lloshko, kallëp metali, derr (boar, swine). (various references) | |
Arabic | نهم (avid, cormorant, gluttonous, gluttony, gourmand, insatiable, insatiate, lickerish, open mouthed, piggy, ravenous, straggling, voracious, voracity), لحم الخنزير, قذر (augean, beastly, contaminated, crummy, defiled, dingy, dirt, dirty, disreputable, dungy, filthy, foul, ghoulish, grimy, grubby, impure, lousy, mean, mucky, muddy, nasty, obscene, piggish, polluted, rubbishy, sinful, slattern, slatternly, slob, sloppy, slovenly, smutty, soil, sordid, squalid, unclean, uncleanly, untidy, verminous, vile), حيي كالخنازير, حقر (abase, blackguard, despise, insult, put down, revile), تلد الخنذيرة, سبيكة (slug), خنزير (hog, porker, swine), إمرأة مستهترة فاجرة, أكل بشراهة, أكول (eater), شخص شره, شره (avid, avidity, cormorant, gluttonous, gourmand, greed, greedy, gross, hoggish, lickerish, piggish, predatory, solicitous, voracious, voracity), شرطي (bobby, bull, conditional, constable, cop, copper, gendarme, officer, provisional, provisory, sleuth, subjunctive). (various references) | |
Asturian | gochu. (various references) | |
Aymara | khuchi (brown, pork). (various references) | |
Basque | txerri. (various references) | |
Bemba | inkumba. (various references) | |
Blackfoot | áíksini. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | свинско месо (pork), свинска кожа (pigskin), свиня (hog, sow, swine), слитък (sow), чугун (cast iron, iron, pig iron), таен агент (intelligencer, operative, spy), кюлче (bullion), блок (bloc, block, bloom, brick, lump, pad), прася се (litter), прасенце (piggy, piggywiggy, shoat), прасе (hog), полицай (bluebottle, bull, constable, cop, copper, flatfoot, fuzz, grass, gumshoe, jemadar, patrolman, peace officer, peeler, pendant, peon, pointsman, police officer, policeman, rozzer, runner, shamus, slop, trap). (various references) | |
Catalan | porc (hog, swine). (various references) | |
Cebuano | baboy. (various references) | |
Chamorro | babui. (various references) | |
Chinese | 豬 (hog, swine), 猪 (pig-a-back, swine). (various references) | |
Cornish | hogh. (various references) | |
Czech | prase (hog, swine). (various references) | |
Danish | svin (hog, swine). (various references) | |
Dutch | varken (hog, swine). (various references) | |
Ecuadorian Quechua | cuchi. (various references) | |
Esperanto | porko (hog, swine), porka (of a pig, pig-). (various references) | |
Faeroese | svín (hog, swine), grísur. (various references) | |
Farsi | مثل خوک رفتارکردن , قالب ریخته گری , گراز (Hog, Pork), خوک زاءیدن , خوک (Hog), ادم حریص وکثیف . (various references) | |
Finnish | sika (hog, pork, swine). (various references) | |
French | cochon, porc. (various references) | |
Frisian | swyn (hog, swine). (various references) | |
German | Schwein (bastard, heel, hog, pork, razorback, swine, yahoo). (various references) | |
Greek | γουρούνι (hog, oaf, sow, swine). (various references) | |
Hebrew | חזיר (hog, pork, sucker, swine). (various references) | |
Hungarian | sertés (hog, swine), disznó (dirty, hog, swine, swinish), malac (farrow, squealer). (various references) | |
Icelandic | svín (hog, swine). (various references) | |
Indonesian | celeng (jerk, wild boar), babi (hog, pork, swine). (various references) | |
Inuktitut | kuukusi. (various references) | |
Irish | muc (hog, swine). (various references) | |
Italian | porco (hog, pork, swine), maiale (grunter, hog, pork, swine). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 豚 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ぶた. (various references) | |
Kongo | ngulu. (various references) | |
Korean | 돼지 (hog, Pork, swine). (various references) | |
Lombard | porscell (hog, swine). (various references) | |
Macedonian | svinja. (various references) | |
Malay | babi (hog, swine). (various references) | |
Manx | muigey (of a pig), muickey (of a pig, porcine). (various references) | |
Maori | poaka. (various references) | |
Maya | keeken. (various references) | |
Mohawk | kweskwes. (various references) | |
Norwegian | svin (hog, swine), gris (hog, swine). (various references) | |
Occitan | pòrc. (various references) | |
Papago | kohji. (various references) | |
Papiamen | porko (hog, swine), kochino (hog, swine), hochi (hog, swine). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | igpay.(various references) | |
Polish | świnia (hog, swine). (various references) | |
Portuguese | porco (boarish, dirty, grubby, hog, hoggish, obscene, piggish, pork, swine, swinish, unwashed). (various references) | |
Provencal | teçon. (various references) | |
Quechua | qowi (guinea pig). (various references) | |
Romanian | porc (boar, grunter, hog, swine). ( |
