pig : Idioms & Phrases

• (that is, bag), a blind bargain; something bought or bargained for, without the quality or the value being known. Colloq.

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• noun pig iron containing a substantial proportion of slag
  

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• (Zoöl.), the aard-vark.

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• noun a kitchen appliance for disposing of garbage
  disposal; garbage disposal.
  

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• (Zoöl.), a large, burrowing, African rodent (Aulacodus Swinderianus) about two feet long, allied to the porcupines but with harsh, bristly hair, and no spines; called also ground rat.

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• noun a person who is subjected to experimental or other observational procedures; someone who is an object of investigation
  case; subject.
  
  • the subjects for this investigation were selected randomly
  • the cases that we studied were drawn from two different communities
• noun stout-bodied nearly tailless domesticated cavy; often kept as a pet and widely used in research
  Cavia cobaya.
  

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• . Prob. a mistake for Guiana pig. (a) (Zoöl.) A small Brazilian rodent (Cavia cobaya), about seven inches in length and usually of a white color, with spots of orange and black. called also cavy used commonly as an experimental animal in laboratory research. (c). metaphorically, any animal or person used in an experiment; often applied to people who are unwillingly or unknowingly subjected by authorities to policies or procedures which might cause bodily or mental harm. (b) A contemptuous sobriquet. Smollett obs in this sense now. .

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• adverb very unlikely
  

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• (Zoöl.), a Japanese domestic hog (Sus pliciceps). Its face is deeply furrowed.

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• noun pig iron made entirely from ore
  

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• pig iron made wholly from ore; in distinction from cinder pig, which is made from ore mixed with forge or mill cinder.

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• noun mold consisting of a bed of sand in which pig iron is cast
  pig.
  

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• (Founding), the bed of sand in which the iron from a smelting furnace is cast into pigs.

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• noun a farm where pigs are raised or kept
  piggery.
  

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• noun crude iron tapped from a blast furnace
  

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• cast iron in pigs, or oblong blocks or bars, as it comes from the smelting furnace. See Pig, 4.

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• verb live like a pig, in squalor
  pig.
  

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• noun North American dwarf shrub resembling mountain laurel but having narrower leaves and small red flowers; poisonous to young stock
  sheep laurel; lambkill; Kalmia angustifolia.
  

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• noun lead that is cast in pigs
  

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• verb overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself
  engorge; gormandize; gormandise; overgorge; glut; overeat; satiate; englut; stuff; ingurgitate; overindulge; gorge; scarf out; gourmandize; binge.
  
  • She stuffed herself at the dinner
  • The kids binged on ice cream

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• (Naut.), a nickname for a quadrant or sextant.

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• noun an edible agaric with a brown fruiting body that is often compound
  Cantharellus clavatus.
  

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• adverb on a railroad flatcar
  piggyback; pickaback.
  
  • the trailer rode piggyback across the country
• adverb on the back or shoulder or astraddle on the hip
  piggyback; pickaback.
  
  • she carried her child piggyback

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Pig"-eyed` adjective

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1. Having small, deep-set eyes.

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Pig"-head`ed adjective

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1. Having a head like a pig; hence, figuratively: stupidity obstinate; perverse; stubborn. B. Jonson. -- Pig"-head`ed*ness, n.

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• adverb in a stubborn unregenerate manner
  obstinately; obdurately; stubbornly; mulishly; cussedly.
  
  • she remained stubbornly in the same position

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Pig"-jawed` adjective

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1. (Zoöl.) Having the upper jaw projecting beyond the lower, with the upper incisors in advance of the lower; -- said of dogs.

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• adjective satellite having the approximate size of a pig
  

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Pig"-stick`ing noun

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1. Boar hunting; -- so called by Anglo-Indians. Colloq. Tackeray.

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• noun small frankfurters wrapped in biscuit dough and baked
  

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• noun feet or knuckles of hogs used as food; pickled or stewed or jellied
  pigs' feet.
  

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• noun feet or knuckles of hogs used as food; pickled or stewed or jellied
  pigs' feet.
  

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• (Zoöl.), the common porpoise.

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• cast iron as it comes from the smelting furnace.

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Sea" pig`

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1. (Zoöl.) (a) A porpoise or dolphin. (b) A dugong.

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• noun an unweaned piglet
  

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• noun whole young pig suitable for roasting
  cochon de lait.
  

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• (that is, in a bag), to buy a thing without knowledge or examination of it.

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• a pig used for finding truffles. When trained, certain pigs have a peculiar ability to smell truffles which lie underground, making them useful for searching out hidden truffles.

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Wa"ter pig`

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1. (Zoöl.) The capybara.
2. (Zoöl.) The gourami.

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