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/pɪɡ/ · noun
(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.
[…]and at the back a rambling courtledge of barns and walls, around which pigs and bare-foot children grunted in loving communion of dirt.
Some religions prohibit their adherents from eating pig.
"Miss Chastene, could you fetch me out an extra plate of pig and biscuit. My partner can't do without your marvelous cooking."
So far on the streets there's been a lot of metallic pink (the kind of pink as in the shade of pig you get, and this is exactly the shade of the diary I've been writing in) […]
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.
She considered him a pig, as he invariably stared at her bosom when they talked.
Use pig when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Pig means (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..
Common synonyms include grice, hog, oinker, pig.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The man kept a pen with two pigs that he fed everything from carrots to cabbage.
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