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pig

გამოთქმა: /pɪg/

განმარტებულია pig სიტყვის თარგმნა სინონიმები

არსებითი სახელი

Universal
  • 1an omnivorous domesticated hoofed mammal with sparse bristly hair and a flat snout for rooting in the soil, kept for its meat.
    • Sus domesticus, family Suidae (the pig family), descended from the wild boar and domesticated over 8,000 years ago. The pig family also includes the warthog and babirusa
  • a wild animal of the pig family; a hog.
  • North American a young pig; a piglet.
  • [mass noun] the flesh of a pig as food.
  • Sus domesticus, family Suidae (the pig family), descended from the wild boar and domesticated over 8,000 years ago. The pig family also includes the warthog and babirusa
  • 2 informal a greedy, dirty, or unpleasant person:I bet he’s scoffed them all, greedy pig
  • 3 derogatory a police officer: the pigs! the pigs! you’ll never take me alive, copper!
  • 4an oblong mass of iron or lead from a smelting furnace. See also pig iron.
  • 5a device which fits snugly inside an oil or gas pipeline and is sent through it to clean or test the inside, or to act as a barrier.

ზმნა

Universal
  • 1 informal gorge oneself with food:lovesick people pig out on chocolate
  • 2 informal crowd together with other people in disorderly or dirty conditions:he didn’t approve of the proposal to pig it in the studio
  • 3(of a sow) give birth to piglets; farrow.
  • 4operate a pig within an oil or gas pipeline: (as noun pigging)they will carry out all trenching and pigging

bleed like a (stuck) pig

bleed copiously.

in pig

(of a sow) pregnant.

in a pig's eye

informal, chiefly North American expressing scornful disbelief at a statement: ‘Under other circumstances, I think we could have been friends.’ ‘In a pig’s eye,’ Susan thought

make a pig of oneself

informal overeat: we made pigs of ourselves, with too many sweets

make a pig's ear of

British informal handle ineptly: only adults make a pig’s ear of it when they start fishing

on the pig's back

Irish informal living a life of ease and luxury; in a very fortunate situation.

pig in the middle

see piggy in the middle at piggy.

a pig in a poke

something that is bought or accepted without first being seen or assessed: the unwary were apt to buy a pig in the poke

pig in the python

a sharp statistical increase represented as a bulge in an otherwise level pattern, used especially with reference to the baby-boom generation regarded as having a gradual effect on consumer spending, society, etc. as they grow older.
[from the shape of such an increase being likened to that of a pig swallowed by a python]

a pig of a ——

British informal used to describe something unpleasant or difficult:it’s a pig of a job

pigs might (or can) fly

British used ironically to express disbelief: ‘Maybe he’s trying to change.’ ‘And maybe pigs can fly.’

squeal (or yell) like a stuck pig

squeal or yell loudly and shrilly.

sweat like a pig

informal sweat profusely: this priest outfit makes you sweat like a pig

piglike

adjective

pigling

noun

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