Other forms: pigs
A pig is a pink farm animal with a round nose that loves mud. Keep pigs, a pig farm, pigs in the mud.
Pigs wallow because they cannot sweat, so mud is how they cool down and keep off sunburn — which makes them cleaner than the reputation allows. They are among the most intelligent farm animals. Note pig as an insult for greed or rudeness; a pig in a poke, meaning something bought unseen; pigs might fly; and that pig originally meant a young one, with the adult being a swine.
1nounpigA farm animal with a round nose kept for meat.
“The pigs pushed their noses into the bucket as soon as the farmer put it down.”
pig is a farm animal.
Middle English pigge meant a piglet, with adults called swine. The young animal's word took over the whole species, exactly as bird did over fowl.
Middle English
pigge
English, today
pig
Built from
From Middle English pigge. From Middle English pigge (“pig, piglet”) (originally a term for a young pig, with adult pigs being swyn (“swine”)), from Old English picga, pycga (attested in picgbrēad (“mast, pig-fodder”)), perhaps a diminutive of Proto-West Germanic puk, pūk (“pig”), which also gave rise to Middle Low German pûke, puyke (“pig, piglet”). Pokorny suggests this root might be somehow related to bū-, bew- (“to blow; swell”), which could account for the alternation between "pig" and "big". Compare Middle Dutch pogge, puggen, pigge, pegsken (> dialectal Dutch pogge (“piglet”)), Middle Low German pugge (> Westphalian German Low German Pogge, Pugge, Püggsken (“pig, piglet”)).
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