Synonyms for pig
pɪgpig

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1. hog, pig, grunter, squealer, Sus scrofanoun

   domestic swine

   Synonyms:
   bull, grunter, slovenly person, pig bed, hog, rat, hogg, copper, hogget, squealer, betrayer, sloven, boar, fuzz, slob, wild boar, informer, blabber, cop

2. slob, sloven, pig, slovenly personnoun

   a coarse obnoxious person

   Synonyms:
   pig bed, sloven, copper, grunter, squealer, slob, slovenly person, fuzz, cop, hog, bull

3. hog, pignoun

   a person regarded as greedy and pig-like

   Synonyms:
   hogget, pig bed, sloven, copper, slovenly person, squealer, slob, hogg, hog, cop, grunter, bull, fuzz

4. bull, cop, copper, fuzz, pignoun

   uncomplimentary terms for a policeman

   Synonyms:
   bull's eye, bull, atomic number 29, slovenly person, hog, strapper, shit, copper color, papal bull, crap, copper, dogshit, blur, hair, tomentum, grunter, horseshit, fuzz, bullshit, bruiser, slob, pig bed, sloven, cop, squealer

5. pig bed, pignoun

   mold consisting of a bed of sand in which pig iron is cast

   Synonyms:
   pig bed, sloven, copper, grunter, squealer, slob, slovenly person, fuzz, cop, hog, bull

6. pigverb

   a crude block of metal (lead or iron) poured from a smelting furnace

   Synonyms:
   pig bed, sloven, bull, copper, grunter, squealer, slob, slovenly person, fuzz, cop, hog

7. pig, pig itverb

   live like a pig, in squalor

   Synonyms:
   devour, guttle, farrow, raven, pig it

8. devour, guttle, raven, pigverb

   eat greedily

   "he devoured three sandwiches"

   Synonyms:
   pig it, guttle, down, go through, consume, farrow, predate, devour, prey, raven

9. farrow, pigverb

   give birth

   "sows farrow"

   Synonyms:
   devour, guttle, farrow, raven, pig it

Matched Categories

1. • Mold
   • Policeman
   • Selfish Person
   • Vulgarian

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1. pignoun

   Synonyms:
   young hog

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1. pignoun

   Synonyms:
   shoat, far, gilt (young female), whinock, hog, swine

   Associated words:
   porcine, farrow, litter, barrow, boar, sow, pork

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1. List of paraphrases for "pig":

   pork, hog, pigs, swine, piggy, porcine, pigmeat, hogs, porc, porker, dirty, boar, gip, piglet, hog-pork, slob, sow, bastard

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1. Huey Newton:

   Most of my young life I was a student. And I know sociologically that words stigmatize people, we felt that the police needed a label, a label other than that fear image that they carried in the community. So we used the pig as the rather low-life animal in order to identify the police. And it worked.

2. Chad Griffin:

   You can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig.

3. Chen Nian:

   The contradictory traits of a' thug' and Peppa Pig make people laugh, peppa Pig's an act of subculture rebellion.

4. Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago:

   Pride grows in the human heart like lard on a pig.

5. Leuven PhD student Elien Rosier:

   We sampled the remains during six months of decomposition and we could identify 452 different compounds, from all those compounds we searched for human specific compounds using principal component analysis and we could identify a combination of eight compounds that were specific for human and pig remains.