pig

Definition

  • noun: an animal that has a fat body with short legs, a small tail, and a wide nose and that is raised on a farm or lives in the wild
  • noun: a young domesticated swine not yet sexually mature
  • verb: to live like a pig
  • + 'of'
  • synonyms: farrow, piggin, hog

Examples

  • He is a sexist 'pig'. = He is a 'male chauvinist pig'. [=he is a man who thinks women are not equal to men]

  • The train station will be renovated 'when pigs fly'. [=it will never be renovated]

  • “This time I think he'll ask me to marry him!” “Yeah, and 'pigs might fly'.”

Movie quotes

  • (..) Kill him! That's for Frodo! And for the Shire! And that's for my old Gaffer! Stop your squealing, you dunghill rat. I'm gonna bleed you like a stuck pig. - Not if I stick you first. - Sam! Oh, Sam, I'm so sorry. Sorry for everything. Let's get you out of here. (..)
    2003 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King