PIGGED

PIG

farrow, pig

(verb) give birth to (piglets); “sows farrow”

devour, guttle, raven, pig

(verb) eat greedily; “he devoured three sandwiches”

pig, pig it

(verb) live like a pig, in squalor

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Verb

pigged

simple past tense and past participle of pig

Source: Wiktionary


PIG

Pig, n.

Definition: A piggin. [Written also pigg.]

Pig, n. Etym: [Cf. D. big, bigge, LG. bigge, also Dan. pige girl, Sw. piga, Icel. pika.]

1. The young of swine, male or female; also, any swine; a hog. "Two pigges in a poke." Chaucer.

2. (Zoöl.)

Definition: Any wild species of the genus Sus and related genera.

3. Etym: [Cf. Sow a channel for melted iron.]

Definition: An oblong mass of cast iron, lead, or other metal. See Mine pig, under Mine.

4. One who is hoggish; a greedy person. [Low] Masked pig. (Zoöl.) See under Masked.

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

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

– Pig yoke (Naut.), a nickname for a quadrant or sextant.

– A pig in a poke (that is, bag), a blind bargain; something bought or bargained for, without the quality or the value being known. [Colloq.]

Pig, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Pigged; p. pr. & vb. n. Pigging.]

1. To bring forth (pigs); to bring forth in the manner of pigs; to farrow.

2. To huddle or lie together like pigs, in one bed.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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