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| Main Entry: | |
| 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
| 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: | iron |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hard, ferrous metal |
| Synonyms: | cast, coke, pig |
| Notes: | ferrum is the Latin name for iron, from which its chemical symbol Fe is derived; iron exists in various states of impurity and it is processed to produce cast iron, wrought iron, etc. and steel (steel is iron to which carbon and other things have been added) |
| 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: | 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 |
| Main Entry: | ungulate |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hoofed animal |
| Synonyms: | buffalo, camel, cattle, cow, deer, elephant, giraffe, hippopotamus, hog, horse, llama, pig, rhinoceros, swine, tapir |
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