Определение pig в Английский Язык Английский Язык словарь
- 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!.
- A police officer
The protester shouted, “Don't give in to the pigs!” as he was arrested.
- a pigeon
- a person who is obese to the extent of resembling such a mammal of the genus Sus
- 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.
- to give birth
The black sow pigged at seven this morning.
- The edible meat of such an animal; pork
Some religions prohibit their adherents from eating pig.
- A difficult problem
Hrm...this one's a real pig: I've been banging my head against the wall over it for hours!.
- The mold in which a block of metal is cast
The pig was cracked, and molten metal was oozing from the side.
- A device for cleaning or inspecting the inside of an oil or gas pipeline, or for separating different substances within the pipeline. Named for the pig-like squealing noise made by their progress
Unfortunately, the pig sent to clear the obstruction got lodged in a tight bend, adding to the problem.
- To greedily consume (especially food)
Wow, Doc. That's heavy. Denis sat there pigging on the joint as usual.
- A young swine, a piglet
- A block of cast metal
After the ill-advised trade, the investor was stuck with worthless options for 10,000 tons of iron pig.
- Any of several mammals of the genus Sus, having cloven hooves, bristles and a nose adapted for digging; especially the domesticated farm animal Sus scrofa
The farmer kept a pen with two pigs that he fed from table scraps and field waste.
- A nasty or disgusting person
She considered him a pig as he invariably stared at her bosom when they talked.
- {v} to bring forth pigs, farrow, sleep, lay
- {n} a young boar or sow, a mass of lead or iron
- eat greedily; "he devoured three sandwiches"
- live like a pig, in squalor
- To huddle or lie together like pigs, in one bed
- uncomplimentary terms for a policeman
- emphasis If you say `pigs might fly' after someone has said that something might happen, you are emphasizing that you think it is very unlikely. `There's a chance he won't get involved in this, of course.' --- `And pigs might fly.'
- give birth; "sows farrow"
- disapproval If you call someone a pig, you think that they are unpleasant in some way, especially that they are greedy or unkind
- 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
- 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
- To bring forth (pigs); to bring forth in the manner of pigs; to farrow
- domestic swine
- The young of swine, male or female; also, any swine; a hog
- Any wild species of the genus Sus and related genera
- 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
- A pig is a pink or black animal with short legs and not much hair on its skin. Pigs are often kept on farms for their meat, which is called pork, ham, bacon, or gammon. the grunting of the pigs. a pig farmer. see also guinea pig = hog
- a crude block of metal (lead or iron) poured from a smelting furnace
- mold consisting of a bed of sand in which pig iron is cast
- a person regarded as greedy and pig-like
- Domesticated in the Middle East around 7000 BC from the wild boar [sus scrofa scrofa], this animal was found over much of western Europe as it moved into the thicker wooded landscape after the last ice age Wild boar featured in the Mesolithic diet
- A piggin
- disapproval If you say that people are pigging themselves, you are criticizing them for eating a very large amount at one meal. After pigging herself on ice cream she went upstairs
- A greedy person; someone who overeats or eats rapidly and noisily
- a metal casting used in remelting
- a crude block of metal (lead or iron) poured from a smelting furnace live like a pig, in squalor
- {f} give birth to piglets
- To eat greedily (also pig out), or in a noisy or dirty fashion
- A device with optional elastomer cups inserted into a pipeline to perform any one of a number of functions: cleaning, displacement, batching, or internal inspection It gets its name from the squealing noises the pipeline pigs made when first used
- disapproval If you say that someone is making a pig of themselves, you are criticizing them for eating a very large amount at one meal. I'm afraid I made a pig of myself at dinner. pigged pigging pig out to eat a lot of food all at once pig out on. Any wild or domestic even-toed ungulate (family Suidae) that is a stout-bodied, short-legged omnivore, with thick, sparsely bristled skin, a long mobile snout, small tail, and hooves with two functional and two nonfunctional digits. Pigs are native to European, Asian, and North African forests. Wild pigs use their tusklike teeth to forage and for defense; the teeth of domestic pigs, which were developed from wild pigs in Europe 1500 BC, are less developed. Pigs are regarded as highly intelligent. Domestic pigs are classified as lard (thick fat, carcass weighing at least 220 lbs, or 100 kg), bacon (carcass about 150 lbs, or 70 kg), and pork (carcass about 100 lbs, or 45 kg) pigs, depending on the principal product derived from them; they are also a source of leather. Today they are usually bred in almost complete confinement. See also boar, hog. wild pig guinea pig pig iron Bay of Pigs invasion
- Crew Bar
- a mechanical projectile used for cleaning hose
- Another name for the pommel horse
- {i} hog, swine; cast iron; police officer, cop (Derogatory Slang)
- (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
- An oblong mass of cast iron, lead, or other metal
- a coarse obnoxious person
- One who is hoggish; a greedy person
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- swine
- pig Latin
- A type of wordplay in which (English) words are altered by moving the leading phonetic of a word to the end and appending -ay - however, if the word begins with a vowel then "-way" is suffixed. For example, "please be quiet or I'll cry" becomes "ease-play e-bay iet-quay or-way I'll-way y-cray"
- pig bed
- a mold, made in a bed of sand, in which pig iron is cast; a pig
- pig dog
- To surf in the pig dog stance (above)
2003: Pig dogging from the take-off is easier than surfing along the wave, lining up a section, grabbing the rail and setting up the tube. — Taj Burrow’s Book of Hot Surfing, edited by Sam McIntosh, Rollingyouth Press, 2003, ISBN 0975070606, page 119.
- pig dog
- A dog bred to hunt wild pigs and boars, typically based on breeds such as Staffordshire Terrier and English Bull Terrier
- pig dog
- A stance used for surfing tubes on one’s backhand. The surfer crouches low over a bent front knee, back leg extending back, outside hand holding onto the outside rail, and inside arm extended upwards touching the face of the wave as a guide (or digging in to slow down)
- pig dog
- a contemptible or worthless person
You don’t frighten us, English pig-dogs!.
- pig flu
- swine influenza
- pig fuckers
- plural form of pig fucker
- pig in a blanket
- A (generally pork) sausage wrapped in bacon, most common at Christmas
- pig in a poke
- Something whose true value is concealed or unknown, especially something offered for sale
- pig in the middle
- monkey in the middle
- pig iron
- A type of crude iron shaped like a block. Pig iron is commonly used as a raw material in industry
- pig it
- To live slovenly, in squalor
- pig lead
- unrefined lead, cast in blocks (in pigs)
- pig out
- To eat voraciously or ravenously; to gorge oneself
They watched the game and pigged out on chips and pizza.
- pig run
- The open area of a pigsty
- pig run
- The running of a pig through an oil or gas pipeline
- pig sticker
- A specialized knife used to slaughter a pig by stabbing it in the throat
- pig's trotter
- the foot of a pig cooked as food
- pig-nose turtle
- The Australasian pig-nose turtle
- pig-nose turtles
- plural form of pig-nose turtle
- pig-nosed turtle
- A variant form of pig-nose turtle
- pig-out
- The action of such eating
- pig-out
- Alternative spelling of pig out
- pig-run
- Alternative spelling of pig run
- pig iron
- raw iron, unrefined iron
- pig in a blanket
- (Gıda) a kind of hot dog
- pig in a blanket
- (Gıda) oysters etc. cooked in strips of bacon
- pig out
- (deyim) Gorge oneself with food
- pig out
- The act or an instance of voracious eating by a person or group
- pig Latin
- {i} secret language or wordplay formed from English by moving the first consonants to the end of the words and adding the extra "ay" syllables (for example "pig Latin" in pig Latin language is "igpay atinlay")
- pig Latin
- A jargon systematically formed by the transposition of the initial consonant to the end of the word and the suffixation of an additional syllable, as igpay atinlay for pig Latin
- pig bed
- mold consisting of a bed of sand in which pig iron is cast
- pig bed
- A bed of sand in which pigs of iron is cast
- pig farm
- {i} piggery, farm for raising, farm used for keeping pigs
- pig in a poke
- something that is offered in such a way that its true value is hidden (particularly its lack of value)
- pig iron
- (Cast iron) Hard, brittle iron produced by melting ore in a blast furnace pig iron can be cast into objects like cannon, shot, and stove plates The iron bars laid out on the casting floor resembled suckling piglets about a larger trench that was called a "sow" Cast iron bars came in two sizes, a pig and a sow
- pig iron
- Crude, high-carbon iron produced by reduction of iron ore in a blast furnace
- pig iron
- Crude iron cast in blocks. a form of iron that is not pure. Crude iron obtained directly from the blast furnace and cast in molds (see cast iron). The crude ingots, called pigs, are then remelted along with scrap and alloying elements and recast into molds to produce various iron and steel products (see Bessemer process, finery process, puddling process)
- pig iron
- A common term for cast iron or cast iron ingots The term originated from the practice of casting ingots in triangular section troughs cut in the sand floor of foundires A central trough fed smaller molds on its side like suckling pigs Thus "pig iron"
- pig iron
- The product of the blast furnace The term was derived from the method of casting the bars of the pig iron in depressions or moulds formed in the sand floor adjacent to the furnace These were connected to a runner (known as a sow) and when filled with metal the runner and the numerous smaller moulds were supposed to resemble a litter of suckling pigs, hence the term pig iron
- pig iron
- crude iron tapped from a blast furnace
- pig lead
- lead that is cast in pigs
- pig lead
- Crude lead cast in blocks
- pig out
- {f} (Slang) overeat, eat too much
- pig out
- overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself; "She stuffed herself at the dinner"; "The kids binged on icecream"
- pig's ears
- an edible agaric with a brown fruiting body that is often compound
- pig-headed
- disapproval If you describe someone as pig-headed, you are critical of them because they refuse to change their mind about things, and you think they are unreasonable. She, in her pig-headed way, insists that she is right and that everyone else is wrong. = stubborn, obstinate + pig-headedness pig-headedness I am not sure whether this was courage or pig-headedness
- Anthony pig
- The favourite or smallest pig in the litter. (1811 Dictionary of Vulgar Tongue)
*English Chronicle, Cotton. MS., Claudius, A. viii., f. 7 10. An Anthony pig was the smallest or favourite of the little, so tame that it would follow people in the hope of food.
- Australasian pig-nose turtle
- A species of soft-shelled turtle native to freshwater streams, lagoons and rivers of the Northern Territory of Australia and of southern New Guinea
- Australasian pig-nose turtles
- plural form of Australasian pig-nose turtle
- Porky Pig
- The animated pig cartoon character created by Mel Blanc that appeared in Warner Brothers' Looney Tunes
- Porky Pig
- Speaking with a stutter
- blind pig
- A police officer who has been bribed to ignore illegal activities
- blind pig
- a blind tiger or speakeasy
- bush pig
- A South African pig, Potamochoerus porcus, having tufts of hair on its face
- bush pig
- An unattractive looking woman
I'll cut the boring intro as to how I ended up showing the glorious sites of Brisbane to these three fat, ugly bush pigs.''.
- dish pig
- A dish washer, ie. a person who does that job (at a restaurant or similar)
2003: A dish pig washes dishes for a living. — Steve Baker review of Rob Longstaff Ten Tracks At A Reasonable Price, at the Australian Broadcasting Commission.
- eat like a pig
- To chew noisily, with one's mouth open, or with much greed
- fat as a pig
- Exceptionally fat. Fat to the extent of resembling a pig. Morbidly obese
- furze-pig
- A hedgehog
- go to Putney on a pig
- minced oath for go to hell
Go to Putney on a pig, you bleeding twerp!.
- guinea pig
- A living experimental subject
He became a human guinea pig and was paid by the company.
- guinea pig
- A tailless rodent of the Cavia genus, with short ears and larger than a hamster; the species Cavia porcellus is often kept as a pet
- guinea-pig
- Attributive form of guinea pig, noun
- happy as a pig in shit
- Extremely happy, visibly happy and carefree
- in a pig's eye
- Very unlikely; probably never
- kalua pig
- Pig that has been cooked using the kalua cooking method, usually in an imu
- like a pig in clover
- Alternative form of in clover
- long pig
- Human flesh used by cannibals as meat
While Melanesian cannibals make long pig, barbecuing enemies, legal and political cannibals in San Francisco put a beautiful wealthy woman, Penny Penny Hill, on trial for murder.
- make a pig's ear of
- To do badly; to make a mess of
Instead, he had lain awake for hours, knowing he'd made a pig's ear of everything, and trying to think of a way to sort things out.
- pigging
- The action of the verb to pig
- pigging
- Present participle of pig
- pigging
- Damned (used as a mild intensive)
I can't get this pigging computer to work.
- piggish
- Resembling a pig as being unpleasant or unclean
- piggish
- pigheaded
- piggish
- greedy or gluttonous
- piggishness
- The quality of being like a pig in one's character; greediness, boorishness, or obstinacy
The old man's stubborn piggishness kept him from acknowledging that his wife was a better driver than he, even after his license was revoked.
- potbellied pig
- a small Vietnamese domesticated pig, sometimes kept as a pet
- rig pig
- A worker on an oil rig; a roughneck
You are truly a fucking champion and thank you for bringing a smile to a rig pig's wife!.
- squeal like a stuck pig
- To utter loud, high-pitched squeals
- sweat like a pig
- To sweat profusely, to be perspiring lots of sweat
- tantony pig
- The favourite or smallest pig in the litter. (1811 Dictionary of Vulgar Tongue)
A “Tantony pig” is the smallest of a litter, a detail that might recall Antonio's description of himself in Shakespeare's play as the “tainted wether of the flock.
- whistle pig
- the woodchuck
- wrestle with a pig
- To engage in a struggle with an opponent that benefits from the struggle even without winning it
While I was at the Dartmouth Review, we used to tell the deans that taking on our campus paper was like wrestling with a pig. Not only did it get everyone dirty, but the pig liked it!.
- year of the pig
- one of the twelve Chinese astrological years
- happy as a pig in the shit
- (deyim) Extremely happy, visibly happy and carefree (UK, slang, simile, vulgar)
- long pig
- A translation of a term formerly used in some Pacific Islands for human flesh as food
- Pigs
- A small inlet of the Caribbean Sea on the southern coast of western Cuba. It was the site of an ill-fated invasion on April 17, 1961, when a force of 1,500 U.S.-trained guerrilla troops landed in an attempt to overthrow the government of Fidel Castro
- ate like a pig
- overate, ate greedily, gluttonized, gorged
- bought a pig in a poke
- bought something that one did not know what it was
- bush pig
- A hog (Potamochoerus porcus) of southern Africa, having long tufts of hair on the face and ears
- buy a pig in a poke
- buy something without been seen in advance
- cinder pig
- pig iron containing a substantial proportion of slag
- disapproval pig out
- If you say that people are pigging out, you are criticizing them for eating a very large amount at one meal. I stopped pigging out on chips and crisps
- fat as a pig
- very fat
- guinea pig
- a person who is subjected to experimental or other observational procedures; someone who is an object of investigation; "the subjects for this investigation were selected randomly"; "the cases that we studied were drawn from two different communities"
- guinea pig
- {i} type of small rodent; subject of an experiment
- guinea pig
- If someone is used as a guinea pig in an experiment, something is tested on them that has not been tested on people before. a human guinea pig Nearly 500,000 pupils are to be guinea pigs in a trial run of the new 14-plus exams
- guinea pig
- A guinea pig is a small furry animal without a tail. Guinea pigs are often kept as pets. Domesticated species (Cavia porcellus) of South American cavy (family Caviidae). It resembles most other cavies in being stout, short-legged, and about 10 in. (25 cm) long. It has small ears, no external tail, and a coat that is black, tan, cream-coloured, brown, white, or a combination of these colours. Hair length and texture vary among varieties. It feeds largely on grass and other green plants. Domesticated in pre-Incan times, it was introduced into Europe in the early 16th century. It is a popular pet and a valuable research animal
- guinea pig
- stout-bodied nearly tailless domesticated cavy; often kept as a pet and widely used in research
- in a pig's eye
- very unlikely
- like a pig
- greedy, sloppy, piggish
- made a pig of himself
- acted like a pig, ate like a pig, ate voraciously
- male chauvinist pig
- man who thinks of women as inferior and discriminates against them by applying to them stereotyped ideas of female inadequacy
- mine pig
- pig iron made entirely from ore
- pigged
- present participle of pig
- piggish
- {s} resembling a pig, hoggish, resembling a swine; messy, filthy, dirty
- piggish
- Relating to, or like, a pig; greedy
- piggish
- 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"
- piggishly
- rudely, in a vulgar manner
- piggishly
- In a piggish manner
- piggishly
- in a piggish manner; "piggishly, he took two pieces of cake
- piggishness
- The quality of being like a pig in ones character; greediness, boorishness, or obstinacy
- piggishness
- {i} resemblance to a pig, hoggishness; filthiness, dirtiness
- pigs
- plural of pig
- potbellied pig
- A small domesticated pig native to Vietnam, often raised as a house pet, having a saddle-shaped back and usually dark coloration
- sea pig
- A porpoise or dolphin
- sea pig
- A dugong
- sucking pig
- an unweaned piglet
- water pig
- The capybara
- water pig
- The gourami