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# piggy

«piggy» in Mova's school dictionary: **a little pig (a child's word)** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (piggy, piggies); adjective (piggy — like a pig)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A piggy is a little pig (a child's word). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/piggy/#m1)

2) A piggy bank is a box, often shaped like a pig, for saving coins. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/piggy/#m2)

3) Piggy (adjective) means like a pig: piggy eyes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/piggy/#m3)

4) A piggyback is a ride on someone's back. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/piggy/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In maths: mostly «piggy bank»: money saved, put in or taken out; saving each week gives a rate. In everyday life: saving pocket money, piggyback rides. In stories and rhymes: «This little piggy went to market» is a toe-counting rhyme.

### examples

- She has 20 dollars in her piggy bank. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/piggy/#x1)
- He puts 2 dollars in his piggy bank each week. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/piggy/#x2)
- She took 5 dollars out of the piggy bank. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/piggy/#x3)
- How much is in the piggy bank now? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/piggy/#x4)
- Dad gave me a piggyback ride to bed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/piggy/#x5)
- «This little piggy went to market» is a game with toes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/piggy/#x6)
- My piggy bank is full of coins. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/piggy/#x7)
- The baby giggled at the little piggy in the picture book. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/piggy/#x8)
- As she was coming home, she came to a stile: but the piggy wouldn't go over the stile. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/piggy/#x9)

### note

Putting money in = add; taking out = subtract; «each week» gives a rate. Trap: the piggy bank is the container; count the money. Plural: piggies. Saving a little often adds up: 2 dollars a week for 10 weeks is 20 dollars.

### In the corpora

- [A piggy bank that is hard to open makes it harder to spend savings on a whim.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/9-the-piggy-bank-and-a-jar-for-each-goal/5/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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