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| Main Entry: |
pig
 [pig] 
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | animal of swine family |
| Synonyms: | boar, cob roller, hog, piggy, piglet, porker, porky, shoat, sow, swine |
| Notes: | swine is the collective (and ancestral) term for domesticated pigs and hogs; a hog is 120 pounds and ready for market, a pig is immature and weighs less |
| Main Entry: | beast |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | large wild animal; brute |
| Synonyms: | barbarian, beastie, creature, critter, fiend, gargoyle, glutton, lower animal, monster, monstrosity, pig, quadruped, swine, varmint |
| Main Entry: | glutton |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who overeats |
| Synonyms: | epicure, gorger, gormandizer, gourmand, hefty eater, hog, pig*, sensualist, stuffer |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Example Sentences
- Breweries, pig farms, food-processing plants and even works dealing with domestic sewage could gain from the technology.
- He said many of the pig bones they found had been thrown away half-eaten.
- The pig who built his house of straw, which the wolf blows down, escapes to the house of the pig who used sticks.
| Main Entry: | hog |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | glutton |
| Synonyms: | cormorant, epicure, gorger, gormandizer, gourmand, greedy eater, hefty eater, pig*, swine |
| Notes: | swine is the collective (and ancestral) term for domesticated pigs and hogs; a hog is 120 pounds and ready for market, a pig is immature and weighs less |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | overeat |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | eat too much |
| Synonyms: | binge*, eat like a horse, feast, gluttonize, gorge, gourmandize, overindulge, pack it away, pig out, pig*, put it away, scarf, stuff one's face, stuff oneself, surfeit |
| Antonyms: | diet, fast |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sleazebag |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | creep |
| Synonyms: | crud, degenerate, deviant, dip, dirtbag, dirtball, pervert, pig*, scum*, scumbag, scuzzbag, sleaze, sleazeball, slimebag, slimeball, slimebucket, slob, weirdo* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | stock |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | animals raised on a farm |
| Synonyms: | animals, beasts, cattle, cows, domestic, farm animals, flock, fowl, herd, hogs, horses, livestock, pigs, sheep, swine |
| Main Entry: | police |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lawman |
| Synonyms: | badge, bear, blue, bluecoat, bobby, boy scout, bull, constable, constabulary, cop, copper, corps, county mounty, detective, fed, flatfoot, force, fuzz, gendarme, gumshoe, heat, law, law enforcement, man, narc, officers, oink, patrolman, pig, police |
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