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pig

1  [pig] noun, verb, pigged, pig⋅ging.
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–noun
1. a young swine of either sex, esp. a domestic hog, Sus scrofa, weighing less than 120 lb. (220 kg.)
2. any wild or domestic swine.
3. the flesh of swine; pork.
4. a person of piglike character, behavior, or habits, as one who is gluttonous, very fat, greedy, selfish, or filthy.
5. Slang. a slatternly, sluttish woman.
6. Disparaging. a police officer.
7. Machinery. any tool or device, as a long-handled brush or scraper, used to clear the interior of a pipe or duct.
8. Metallurgy.
a. an oblong mass of metal that has been run while still molten into a mold of sand or the like, esp. such a mass of iron from a blast furnace.
b. one of the molds for such masses of metal.
c. metal in the form of such masses.
d. pig iron.
–verb (used with object)
9. to mold (metal) into pigs.
10. Informal. to eat (something) quickly; gulp: He pigged three doughnuts and ran off to school.
–verb (used without object)
11. to bring forth pigs; farrow.
—Verb phrase
12. pig out, Slang. to overindulge in eating: We pigged out on pizza last night.
—Idioms
13. on the pig's back, Australian Slang. in a fortunate position.
14. pig it,
a. to live like a pig, esp. in dirt.
b. to lead a disorganized, makeshift life; live without plan or pattern.
Origin:
1175–1225; ME pigge young pig, with doubled consonant appropriate to terms for smaller animals (cf. dog, frog 1 ) but with no obvious relations; almost certainly not akin to LG, D big(ge), MD vigghe young pig, which involve further obscurities; if Dan pige, Sw piga maid, young girl are compared, perh. < ON word meaning “young, small,” applied in Scand to girls but in OE to swine
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Slang Dictionary
pig

  1. n.
    someone who eats too much; a glutton. : I try to cut down on calories, but whenever I see red meat I make a pig of myself.
  2. n.
    an ugly and fat woman or man. : Clare is a pig. Why doesn't she lose a ton or two?
  3. n.
    a dirty or slovenly person. : Jimmy, change your clothes. Look at that mud, you little pig!
  4. n.
    an officer; a police officer or a military officer. (Used mostly for a police officer. Widely known since the 1960s.) : The pigs who aren't in pig heaven are driving around in pigmobiles busting innocent people like me.
  5. n.
    a Caucasian. (Black.) : Why do those pigs think they can walk in here like that?
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

pig 
probably from O.E. *picg, found in compounds, ultimate origin unknown. Originally "young pig" (the word for adults was swine). Another O.E. word for "pig" was fearh, related to furh "furrow," from PIE *perk- "dig, furrow" (cf. L. porc-us "pig," see pork). "This reflects a widespread IE tendency to name animals from typical attributes or activities" [Lass]. Synonyms grunter, porker are from sailors' and fishermen's euphemistic avoidance of uttering the word pig at sea, a superstition perhaps based on the fate of the Gadarene swine, who drowned. The meaning "oblong piece of metal" is first attested 1589, on the notion of "large mass." The derogatory slang meaning "police officer" has been in underworld slang since at least 1811; pig out "eat like a pig" is 1979; pig-headed is 1620; pigskin as slang for "football" is from 1894, though as word for saddle leather it is from 1855. Pig Latin first recorded 1937. Pigsty is from 1591; fig. use for "miserable, dirty hovel" is attested from 1820.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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