piggy (redirected from pig in the middle)

pig·gy  (pg)

n. pl. pig·gies Informal

A little pig.

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piggy [ˈpɪgɪ]

n pl -gies

1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) a child's word for a pig, esp a piglet

piggy in the middle

a.  (Group Games / Games, other than specified) a children's game in which one player attempts to retrieve a ball thrown over him or her by at least two other players

b.  a situation in which a person or group is caught up in a disagreement between other people or groups

3. a child's word for toe or, sometimes, finger

adj -gier, -giest

another word for piggish

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	piggy - a young pig                           piglet, shoat, shote young mammal - any immature mammal genus Sus, Sus - type genus of the Suidae sucking pig - an unweaned piglet
Adj.	1.	piggy - 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" hoggish, piggish, swinish, porcine gluttonous - given to excess in consumption of especially food or drink; "over-fed women and their gluttonous husbands"; "a gluttonous debauch"; "a gluttonous appetite for food and praise and pleasure"

Translations

piggy [ˈpɪgɪ]

A. N → cerdito m, chanchito m (LAm)
to play piggy in the middle → jugar al balón prisionero
to be piggy in the middle (= powerless to act, influence) → estar entre dos fuegos

B. ADJ with little piggy eyes → con ojos pequeños como de cerdo

C. CPD piggy bank N → hucha f (Sp) (en forma de cerdito), alcancía f (LAm)

piggy [ˈpɪgi]

n → cochon m

adj [eyes] → porcin(e)

piggy

n (baby-talk) → Schweinchen nt

adj (+er)

attr → Schweins-; piggy eyes → Schweinsaugen pl

(inf: = greedy) → verfressen (inf)