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

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

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. Lauren Blanchard:

   It is the year of the pig!

2. Jerry Rubin:

   By the end, everybody had a label -- pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary ... If you had everything but a gun, you were a radical but not a revolutionary.

3. Paul Shapiro:

   It's stunning that the governor of Iowa is so unfamiliar with pig farming that he doesn't know the difference between gestation crates and farrowing crates, this bill applied only to gestation crates, meaning there are no piglets to be kept separate from their mothers, since they're all in utero.

4. Jooney Woodward:

   (Harriet) was like a steward, she was sort of judging the guinea pigs. And she also had her own guinea pig with her, which had red as well, i just thought that was incredibly striking. I thought, 'I've got to get a shot of that.'.

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.