Synonyms for pig out
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : pig-out |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈpɪgˌaʊt |
Top 10 synonyms for pig out Other synonyms for the word pig out
Définition of pig out
Origin :- probably from Old English *picg, found in compounds, ultimate origin unknown. Originally "young pig" (the word for adults was swine). Apparently related to Low German bigge, Dutch big ("but the phonology is difficult" -- OED). The meaning "oblong piece of metal" is first attested 1580s, on the notion of "large mass." Applied to persons, usually in contempt, since 1540s; the derogatory slang meaning "police officer" has been in underworld slang since at least 1811.
- The pigs frisked my panney, and nailed my screws; the officers searched my house, and seized my picklock keys. ["Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit and Pickpocket Eloquence," London, 1811]
- Another Old English word for "pig" was fearh, related to furh "furrow," from PIE *perk- "dig, furrow" (cf. Latin porc-us "pig," see pork). "This reflects a widespread IE tendency to name animals from typical attributes or activities" [Lass]. Synonyms grunter, porker are from sailors' and fishermen's euphemistic avoidance of uttering the word pig at sea, a superstition perhaps based on the fate of the Gadarene swine, who drowned. The image of a pig in a poke is attested from 1520s (see poke (n.3)). Flying pigs as a type of something unreal is from 1610s.
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- A fello what does that is makin a pig out of hisself I think.
- Extract from : « "That's me all over, Mable" » by Edward Streeter
- And Grace has got up at four o'clock every morning for a week and stayed up till midnight, trying to get that pig out of sight.
- Extract from : « Green Valley » by Katharine Reynolds
- An old man, with the stump of a clay pipe in his lips, was turning his pig out to grass as I approached.
- Extract from : « Kilgorman » by Talbot Baines Reed
- Greta, with one eye on her governess, was stealthily cutting a pig out of orange peel.
- Extract from : « Villa Rubein and Other Stories » by John Galsworthy
- Before Ben got the pig out of the garden, the pig learned that Ben knew exactly what to do with a big stick.
- Extract from : « Harper's Young People, June 22, 1880 » by Various
- I brought the pig out of the box, and exhibited the animal on a small table in the middle of the room.
- Extract from : « Adventures and Recollections » by Bill o'th' Hoylus End
- Then they got into their boat, and managed to get the pig out into the channel and set it floating off again.
- Extract from : « Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) » by William Delisle Hay
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