English word senses marked with lifeform category "Pigs"
Parent categories: Even-toed ungulates, Livestock, Mammals, Agriculture, Animals, Vertebrates, Applied sciences, Lifeforms, Chordates, Sciences, Life, Nature
Total 126 word senses
- Berkshire (Proper name) An inland county of England, bounded by Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Hampshire, Surrey, Greater London and Wiltshire.
- Berkshire (Proper name) A place in the United States:; A community in Sandy Hook, Newtown, Fairfield County, Connecticut.
- Berkshire (Proper name) A place in the United States:; A town in Tioga County, New York.
- Berkshire (Proper name) A place in the United States:; An unincorporated community and township in Delaware County, Ohio.
- Berkshire (Proper name) A place in the United States:; A town in Franklin County, Vermont.
- Berkshire (Noun) A steam locomotive of the 2-8-4 wheel arrangement.
- Buru babirusa (Noun) Babyrousa babyrussa, a pig-like animal native to Buru and the Sula Islands in Indonesia.
- Duroc (Noun) A pig of a reddish breed developed in North America.
- Kunekune (Noun) A small, hairy breed of domestic pig that originated in New Zealand.
- Large White (Noun) A domestic pig of a breed originating in Yorkshire.
- Mangalica (Noun) A domestic pig of a Hungarian breed developed in the mid-19th century, which grows a thick, curly coat of hair.
- Mexican hog (Noun) peccary
- Poland China (Noun) A large, mostly black domestic pig of a breed from Ohio, United States, deriving from many breeds including the Berkshire and Hampshire.
- Sulawesi warty pig (Noun) The Celebes warty pig, Sus celebensis.
- Tamworth (Proper name) A city and administrative centre of Tamworth Regional Council in New South Wales, Australia.
- Tamworth (Proper name) Tamworth Regional Council, a local government area in northern New South Wales.
- Tamworth (Proper name) A town in Carroll County, New Hampshire, United States.
- Tamworth (Proper name) A community in Stone Mills, Lennox and Addington County, Ontario, Canada.
- Vietnamese pot-bellied pig (Noun) Synonym of potbellied pig.
- Welsh (Noun) The Welsh language.
- Welsh (Noun) The people of Wales.
- Welsh (Proper name) An English and Scottish surname transferred from the nickname for someone who was a Welshman or a Celt.
- Welsh (Proper name) A town in Louisiana, United States, named for early landowner Henry Welsh.
- Yorkshire pig (Noun) A domestic pig of a breed originating in Yorkshire.
- babiroussa (Noun) Any large hoglike quadruped, of the genus Babyrousa, found in the East Indies, sometimes domesticated, with its upper canine teeth or tusks large and recurved.
- babirusa (Noun) Any of several mammals in the genus Babyrousa in the pig family Suidae, in which the upper tusk grows upward.
- bacon (Noun) Road rash.
- barling (Noun) A pole; (carpentry) the cross rafter of a roof.
- barrow (Noun) A hill.
- barrow (Noun) A small vehicle used to carry a load and pulled or pushed by hand.
- barrow (Noun) A wicker case in which salt is put to drain.
- barrow (Noun) A long sleeveless flannel garment for infants.
- boar (Noun) A wild boar (Sus scrofa), the wild ancestor of the domesticated pig.
- brood sow (Noun) A female pig kept for breeding.
- bush pig (Noun) An African pig of the genus Potamochoerus; Potamochoerus porcus or Potamochoerus larvatus.
- chazzer (Noun) A pig.
- chazzer (Noun) A police officer, especially one who is corrupt.
- collared peccary (Noun) A small wild hog (Pecari tajacu), native to southern United States through to northern Argentina.
- deer-pig (Noun) Synonym of babirusa
- farrow (Noun) A litter of piglets.
- giant forest hog (Noun) Hylochoerus meinertzhageni, a large pig living in the jungles of West and Central Africa.
- gilt (Noun) Gold or other metal in a thin layer; gilding.; Gold-colored paint or other coating.
- gilt (Noun) A security issued by the Bank of England (see gilt-edged).
- gilt (Noun) A young female pig, at or nearing the age of first breeding.
- grice (Noun) A pig, especially a young pig, or its meat; sometimes specifically, a breed of wild pig or boar native to Scotland, now extinct.
- grunt (Verb) To break wind; to fart.
- grunter (Noun) One who grunts.
- ham (Noun) The region back of the knee joint; the popliteal space; the hock.
- ham (Noun) Electronic mail that is wanted; mail that is not spam or junk mail.
- ham (Noun) An overacting or amateurish performer; an actor with an especially showy or exaggerated style.
- ham (Noun) An amateur radio operator.
- ham (Verb) To overact; to act with exaggerated emotions.
- herd boar (Noun) A stud boar, a male pig kept for breeding.
- hog (Verb) To take a rough cut, quickly removing material; to hog out.
- hogcote (Noun) A shed for pigs; a sty.
- hogget (Noun) A young colt or sheep of either gender from about 9 to 18 months of age (until it cuts 2 teeth).
- hogget (Noun) The meat of a young sheep.
- hogget (Noun) A young boar of the second year.
- hoghide (Noun) Leather made from the skin of a pig.
- hogskin (Noun) Leather tanned from the skin of a hog.
- javelina (Noun) The peccary, especially the collared peccary.
- micropig (Noun) A miniature breed of pig.
- minipig (Noun) A small pig of a breed used in biological research
- mudlark (Noun) The Grallina cyanoleuca that builds its nest with mud into a bowl-like shape.
- oink (Interjection) Drawing attention to male chauvinism (from the term male chauvinist pig).
- peccary (Noun) Any of the family Tayassuidae of mammals from the Americas, related to pigs and hippos.
- pig (Noun) The general-purpose M60 machine gun, considered to be heavy and bulky.
- piggery (Noun) Piggish behaviour.
- piggy (Noun) A guinea pig.
- piggy (Noun) A member of the police.
- piggy (Adjective) resembling a pig; greedy
- piggy (Adjective) resembling a pig; lecherous, often in a sexist way.
- piggy wiggy (Noun) a pig.
- piggy-wig (Noun) A pig.
- piglet (Noun) A young pig.
- pigling (Noun) A little or young pig; a piglet.
- pigpen (Noun) The pigpen cipher.
- pigsicle (Noun) A cold or frozen pig.
- pigskin (Noun) Leather made from the skin of a pig.
- pigsty (Noun) An enclosure where pigs are kept, either a building or part of one.
- porcicide (Noun) The killing of a pig or pigs.
- porciculture (Noun) The raising of pigs.
- porcine (Adjective) Overweight to the extent of resembling a pig; morbidly obese.
- pork (Noun) law enforcement, those who side with criminal prosecution
- porker (Noun) A pig, especially a castrated male, being fattened and raised for slaughter.
- porket (Noun) A young hog; a pig.
- porklet (Noun) A young pig, especially one that is to be raised to produce pork.
- porkling (Noun) A young pig; a porket.
- pot-bellied pig (Noun) Alternative form of potbellied pig.
- potbellied pig (Noun) A small Vietnamese domesticated pig, sometimes kept as a pet.
- pygmy hog (Noun) Porcula salvania, a tiny pig of India.
- quenk (Noun) Synonym of collared peccary
- razorback (Noun) The rorqual or finback whale.
- red river hog (Noun) A bush pig of species Potamochoerus porcus, native to forested areas of western and central Africa.
- saddleback (Noun) The great black-backed gull.
- saddleback (Noun) A raccoon oyster.
- saddleback (Noun) The harp seal.
- saddleback (Verb) To engage in anal sex with the intention of preserving one's virginity (chiefly by Christian teenagers)
- sanglier (Noun) A full-grown wild boar.
- scissorbill (Noun) Synonym of skimmer: birds of the genus Rynchops.
- scissorbill (Noun) Synonym of razorback: a variety of pig.
- scissorbill (Noun) A fool, an incompetent; a yokel, a hick.
- scissorbill (Noun) A foolish worker who lacks class consciousness and opposes unions; also, a company man, a drone, .
- shoat (Noun) A young, newly-weaned pig.
- shoat (Noun) A sheep–goat hybrid (whether artificially produced or the result of animals from these species naturally intermating).
- skunk pig (Noun) javelina
- snout (Noun) Tobacco; cigarettes.
- sooey (Interjection) A cry to get the attention of swine.
- sounder (Noun) A group of wild boar.
- sow (Noun) A female bear, she-bear.
- sow (Noun) A contemptible, often fat woman.
- sow (Noun) A sowbug.
- sow (Noun) A kind of covered shed, formerly used by besiegers in filling up and passing the ditch of a besieged place, sapping and mining the wall, etc.
- squeal (Noun) A high-pitched sound, such as the scream of a child or a female person, or noisy worn-down brake pads.
- squeal (Noun) The cry of a pig.
- squeal (Verb) To give sensitive information about someone to a third party; to rat on someone.
- suid (Noun) Any of the family Suidae of pigs and related creatures.
- swine (Noun) A contemptible person (plural swines).
- tayassuid (Noun) Any peccary of the family Tayassuidae
- truffle hog (Noun) A domestic pig used for extraction of truffles.
- warthog (Noun) A wild pig of the genus Phacochoerus, native to Africa.
- warthoglet (Noun) A baby warthog.
- when pigs fly (Adverb) Never.
- wild boar (Noun) A wild swine native to Eurasia and North Africa (Sus scrofa), now widely distributed elsewhere and ancestor of most domestic pig breeds.
- wild pig (Noun) Synonym of wild boar
- yelt (Noun) A young sow who has not yet had a litter.
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