PIGS

Noun

pigs

plural of pig

Verb

pigs

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pig

Anagrams

• gips, psig

Noun

PIGs

plural of PIG

Anagrams

• gips, psig

Noun

PIGS

(genetics) Phosphatidylinositol glycan anchor biosynthesis, class S, a human gene.

Proper noun

PIGS

(economics, widely considered derogatory)

(during the 1990s) Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain, countries of Southern Europe noted for similar economic environments.

(during the European debt crisis) Portugal, Ireland, Greece and Spain, four countries that were unable to refinance their government debt or to bail out over-indebted banks on their own.

Anagrams

• gips, psig

Source: Wiktionary

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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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