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Piggy Common

Piggy has 4 different meanings across 2 categories:

Noun · Adjective

Definitions
Noun
1

a young pig

"The litter of three tiny pigs, often called piggies by their mother, followed her out into the garden."

2

A pig (the animal).

"The little girl was terrified of the squealing pig in the barn."

Adjective
1

resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy

"piggish table manners"

"the piggy fat-cheeked little boy and his porcine pot-bellied father"

"swinish slavering over food"

2

greedy

"After we split the last slice of pizza, my brother immediately started making piggy eyes at me while I was still eating mine."

Example Sentences
"piggish table manners" adjective
"the piggy fat-cheeked little boy and his porcine pot-bellied father" adjective
"swinish slavering over food" adjective
Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
young mammal
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
sucking pig
Rhyming Words
aggy oggy eggy iggy baggy vuggy tuggy puggy muggy huggy buggy soggy poggy moggy hoggy foggy doggy boggy ziggy wiggy
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