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Oxford 5000 vocabulary |A1|SPEAKING vocabularyACRONYMpig /pɪɡ/ noun [countable]
pig verb (past tense and past participle pigged, present participle pigging)
خوک
گراز، مثل خوک رفتار کردن، خوک زاییدن، آدم حریص و کثیف، قالب ریخته گری، علوم مهندسی: آهن تازه ریخته
pig[noun]Synonyms:- hog, boar, porker, sow, swine
- slob
(slang), boor, brute, glutton, swine
[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲
I. pig1 S2 /pɪɡ/
noun [countable][
Date: 1200-1300;
Origin: Probably from an unrecorded Old English picga]
1. ANIMAL a farm animal with short legs, a fat body, and a curved tail. Pigs are kept for their meat, which includes
pork,
BACON, and
ham.
Synonym : hog American English:
He kept pigs and poultry.2. PERSON spoken a) someone who eats too much or eats more than their share:
You greedy pig, you ate all the candy! I made a bit of a pig of myself (=ate too much) at dinner. b) someone who is unpleasant in some way, for example unkind or very untidy:
They live like pigs in that house over the road. You can tell him from me he’s an ignorant pig.(male) chauvinist pig (=a man who thinks women are not equal to men)3. POLICE taboo informal an offensive word for a police officer. Do not use this word.
4. a pig (of a something) British English spoken something that is very difficult or unpleasant to do:
They’re improving, and they’re a pig of a team to beat.5. make a pig’s ear of something British English spoken to do something very badly:
Someone’s made a right pig’s ear of these repairs.6. in a pig’s eye American English spoken informal used to show that you do not believe what someone is saying
7. pig in a poke spoken something you bought without seeing it first and that is not as good or valuable as you expected:
What if the car you buy turns out to be a pig in a poke?8. pigs might fly British English,
when pigs fly American English spoken used to say that you do not think something will happen:
‘Someone might have handed in your pass.’ ‘Yes, and pigs might fly.’ [TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲