pig | (noun) domestic swine | Synonyms: grunter, hog, squealer, Sus scrofa |
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(noun) a crude block of metal (lead or iron) poured from a smelting furnace | - |
(noun) mold consisting of a bed of sand in which pig iron is cast | Synonyms: pig bed |
(noun) a person regarded as greedy and pig-like | Synonyms: hog |
(noun) uncomplimentary terms for a policeman | Synonyms: bull, cop, copper, fuzz |
(noun) a coarse obnoxious person | Synonyms: slob, sloven, slovenly person |
pigboat | (noun) a submersible warship usually armed with torpedoes | Synonyms: sub, submarine |
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pigeon | (noun) wild and domesticated birds having a heavy body and short legs | - |
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pigeonhole | (noun) a small compartment | Synonyms: cubbyhole |
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(noun) a specific (often simplistic) category | - |
pigeonholing | (noun) a system for classifying things into groups | Synonyms: grouping |
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pigfish | (noun) found from Long Island southward | Synonyms: hogfish, Orthopristis chrysopterus |
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(noun) found around the Great Barrier Reef | Synonyms: Achoerodus gouldii, giant pigfish |
piggery | (noun) a farm where pigs are raised or kept | Synonyms: pig farm |
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piggishness | (noun) an excessive desire for food | Synonyms: greediness, hoggishness |
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piggy | (noun) a young pig | Synonyms: piglet, shoat, shote |
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piggyback | (noun) the act of carrying something piggyback | - |
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pigheadedness | (noun) resolute adherence to your own ideas or desires | Synonyms: bullheadedness, obstinacy, obstinance, self-will, stubbornness |
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piglet | (noun) a young pig | Synonyms: piggy, shoat, shote |
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pigman | (noun) a herder or swine | Synonyms: swineherd |
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pigment | (noun) a substance used as a coating to protect or decorate a surface (especially a mixture of pigment suspended in a liquid); dries to form a hard coating | Synonyms: paint |
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(noun) dry coloring material (especially a powder to be mixed with a liquid to produce paint, etc.) | - |
(noun) any substance whose presence in plant or animal tissues produces a characteristic color | - |
pigmentation | (noun) coloration of living tissues by pigment | - |
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(noun) the deposition of pigment in animals or plants or human beings | - |
pigmy | (noun) an unusually small individual | Synonyms: pygmy |
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pignolia | (noun) edible seed of any of several nut pines especially some pinons of southwestern North America | Synonyms: pine nut, pinon nut |
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pignut | (noun) an American hickory tree having bitter nuts | Synonyms: black hickory, brown hickory, Carya glabra, pignut hickory |
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pigpen | (noun) a pen for swine | Synonyms: pigsty, sty |
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pigskin | (noun) leather from the skin of swine | - |
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pigsticking | (noun) the sport of hunting wild boar with spears | - |
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pigsty | (noun) a pen for swine | Synonyms: pigpen, sty |
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pigswill | (noun) wet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk | Synonyms: pigwash, slop, slops, swill |
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pigtail | (noun) a plait of braided hair | - |
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pigwash | (noun) wet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk | Synonyms: pigswill, slop, slops, swill |
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pigweed | (noun) leaves collected from the wild | Synonyms: lamb's-quarter, wild spinach |
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(noun) common weedy European plant introduced into North America; often used as a potherb | Synonyms: Chenopodium album, lamb's-quarters, wild spinach |
(noun) leaves sometimes used as potherbs; seeds used as cereal; southern United States to Central America; India and China | Synonyms: Amaranthus hypochondriacus |