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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pig |
| Synonyms: | boar, hog, oinker, peccary, porker, wild boar |
| 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: | brute |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | barbarian |
| Synonyms: | animal, beast, cannibal, creature, critter, degenerate, devil, fiend, lout, monster, ogre, ruffian, sadist, savage, swine, wild animal |
| Antonyms: | gentleman, humanitarian |
| Main Entry: | hog |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pig |
| Synonyms: | boar, cob roller, oinker, piggy, piglet, porker, razorback, shoat, sow, swine, warthog |
| 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: | 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: | pig |
| 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: | 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: | slob |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pig |
| Synonyms: | boor, draggletail, hog, ragamuffin, slattern, sloven, swine, tatterdemalion |
| 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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