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# pig

«pig» in Mova's school dictionary: **a farm animal with a pink or dark body, a flat nose…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a pig, pigs; piglet for a baby)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A pig is a farm animal with a pink or dark body, a flat nose called a snout, short legs and a curly tail; it says «oink». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pig/#m1)

2) Calling a person a pig (informal, rude) means they eat too much, are messy, or are greedy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pig/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science, pigs are mammals; a mother pig is a sow, a father is a boar and a baby is a piglet; they live in a pigsty or pen. On farms they give pork, bacon and ham. In stories: The Three Little Pigs, Peppa Pig, Charlotte's Web. Phrases: guinea pig (a different animal), piggy bank, «when pigs fly» (never).

### examples

- The pig rolled in the mud to keep cool. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pig/#x1)
- A baby pig is called a piglet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pig/#x2)
- Pigs are clever animals. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pig/#x3)
- The farmer feeds the pigs every morning. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pig/#x4)
- I saved my coins in a piggy bank. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pig/#x5)
- The three little pigs built three houses. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pig/#x6)
- Pigs have a strong sense of smell. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pig/#x7)
- «I will tidy my room when pigs fly!» [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pig/#x8)

### note

Countable: one pig, two pigs. Myth: pigs are not dirty by nature; they roll in mud because they cannot sweat and need to cool down. A guinea pig is not a pig, it is a small rodent. Calling someone a pig is rude.

### In the corpora

- [The ancestors of elephants, around 55 million years ago, were pig-sized animals with no trunk.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/21-elephants-the-trunk/19/)
- [Black and brown bear cubs are born in the den in midwinter and are only about the size of a guinea pig.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/23-bears/11/)
- [A hippo's closest living relatives are whales and dolphins, not pigs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/128-madagascar-real-zebras-hippos-and-giraffes/12/)
- [Pale pigs can get sunburnt like fair-skinned people, so farmers sometimes give them shade or sun cream.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/138-peppa-pig-real-pigs/5/)
- [In many countries it is against the law to feed pigs kitchen leftovers, because meat scraps can spread serious pig diseases.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/138-peppa-pig-real-pigs/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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