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pig Noun 1. a mammal with a long head, a snout, and bristle-covered skin, which is kept and killed for pork, ham, and bacon Related adjective porcine 2. Informal a dirty, greedy, or bad-mannered person 3. Offensive slang a policeman 4. a mass of metal cast into a simple shape 5. Brit informal something that is difficult or unpleasant: the coast is a pig for little boats 6. a pig in a poke something bought or received without previous sight or knowledge 7. make a pig of oneself Informal to overeat Verb [pigging, pigged] 1. (of a sow) to give birth 2. (often foll. by out)Slang to eat greedily or to excess: she had pigged out on pizza before the show [Middle English pigge]
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The two active young men were brothers who lived in the next village to his, and the pig had been theirs--so Kwaque narrated in atrocious beche-de-mer English. Luckily a butcher soon came by, driving a pig in a wheelbarrow. He finished off by squeaking so like a pig that the spectators thought that he had a porker concealed about him. |
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