pig

(countable)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.

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

Đồng nghĩa: hog, suid, swine

(uncountable)The edible meat of such an animal; pork.

Some religions prohibit their adherents from eating pig.

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

(countable, derogatory, figuratively, uncountable)Someone who overeats or eats rapidly and noisily.

You gluttonous pig! Now that you've eaten all the cupcakes, there will be none for the party!

When you figure out the maze and get to the middle, that's when you get your free cocoa. It's on a table in two big thermos jugs, and there's cups and a ladle, and the sign says, "One cup per customer, PLEASE!" because some people are pigs.

Đồng nghĩa: belly-god, buzgut, cormorant, epicure, gannet, glutton, gorger, gourmand, gormandizer, greedyguts, guttle, hog, Homer Simpson, helluo, pig, slow belly, trencherman

(countable, derogatory, figuratively, uncountable)A lecherous or sexist man.

She considered him a pig, as he invariably stared at her bosom when they talked.

(countable, derogatory, figuratively, uncountable)A dirty or slovenly person.

He was a pig and his apartment a pigpen; take-away containers and pizza boxes in a long, moldy stream lined his counter tops.

(countable, derogatory, figuratively, uncountable)An obese person.

Đồng nghĩa: All are derogatory unless otherwise labeled, butterball, chubbs, chubster, chunker, chunky monkey, elephant, fat, fatfuck, fatso, fattie, fatty, fatty bom bom, fatty boombalatty, fat-ass, fatass, fat fuck, fatshit, fussock, gorbelly, hambeast, hamplanet, heffalump, landwhale, lardass, lardbucket, lardo, oinker, obeast, pig, podge, porker, pudge, roly-poly, salad dodger, swagbelly, thunder thighs, tubbalard, tubba lard, tubbo, tub of guts, tub of lard, whale

(countable, derogatory, slang, uncountable)A police officer.

The protester shouted, “Don't give in to the pigs!” as he was arrested.

Đồng nghĩa: 5-O, alphabet, barney, beatsman, bizzie, bluebottle, bluecoat, blue heeler, blue meanie, bobby, body snatcher, bogey, boy in blue, bull, bullyman, buttons, centenier, charpering omi, chazzer, cobbler, cop, copper, cozzer, cracker, crusher, crowns, dibble, fed, filth, finest, finger, five-o, flatfoot, flatty, fuzz, garda, gendarme, glowie, guardian of the peace, harman, harman-beck, Inspector Knacker, jack, jackboot, jake, John Law, John Q. Law, Johnny Hopper, lawman, mee-maw, monarch, Mr Plod, mutton shunter, nuthook, oinker, Officer Friendly, Old Bill, one-time, PC Plod, pig, piggy, peeler, plod, police, police officer, policeman, policeperson, polis, po-po, raw lobster, roller, rozzer, scufter, slop, swine, statie, twelve, tyre biter, unboiled lobster, walloper, wooden-top

(countable, informal, uncountable)A difficult problem.

Hrm... this one's a real pig: I've been banging my head against the wall over it for hours!

Chewing-gum is a pig to get out of your hair.

(countable, uncountable)(countable and uncountable) An oblong block of cast metal (now only iron or lead).

The conveyor carried the pigs from the smelter to the freight cars.

(countable, uncountable)The mold in which a block of metal is cast.

The pig was cracked, and molten metal was oozing from the side.

(countable, uncountable)A lead container used for radioactive waste.

(of swine) To give birth.

The black sow pigged at seven this morning.

(intransitive)To greedily consume (especially food).

They were pigging on the free food at the bar.

(intransitive)To huddle or lie together like pigs, in one bed.

(intransitive)To live together in a crowded filthy manner.

(transitive)(transitive, engineering) To clean (a pipeline) using a pig (the device).