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# oink

«oink» in Mova's school dictionary: **the grunting sound a pig makes** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (an oink, oinks); verb (oink, oinks, oinked, oinking); interjection (oink!)

### meaning for a pupil

1) An oink is the grunting sound a pig makes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oink/#m1)

2) To oink is to make that sound. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oink/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Used in farm stories, nursery rhymes and lessons on onomatopoeia.

### examples

- The pig went «oink, oink». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oink/#x1)
- «Oink!» said the piglet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oink/#x2)
- We heard the pigs oinking in the barn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oink/#x3)
- «Old MacDonald had a farm… with an oink oink here». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oink/#x4)
- My little sister oinks when she laughs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oink/#x5)
- The piglets oinked for their food. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oink/#x6)

### note

Say «an oink». It is an onomatopoeia. Calling a person «oink» or «pig» is unkind.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «oink» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oink/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.