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Piggy   /pˈɪgi/   Listen
Piggy

adjective
1.
Resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy.  Synonyms: hoggish, piggish, porcine, swinish.  "The piggy fat-cheeked little boy and his porcine pot-bellied father" , "Swinish slavering over food"



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"Piggy" Quotes from Famous Books



... Piggy and a Brother Piggy, too, The story they are telling here would not apply to you, For selfish little sisters who make their brothers cry Do not belong in houses but with piggies in ...
— Animal Children - The Friends of the Forest and the Plain • Edith Brown Kirkwood

... Owing to the fact that he was a large florid sandy person, with a freckled bristly neck and a singularly direct fearless manner of looking at his man with eyes that were small, sunken, baleful and rather piggy, the exigencies of Mr. Hennage's profession had never even warranted recourse to his two most priceless possessions—his hands. Yet, despite this fact, and the further fact that he had never accomplished anything more ...
— The Long Chance • Peter B. Kyne

... office, noting, as he passed, the red patches of rage on Mr. Bates' pudgy face, and catching a look of fierce hate from his small piggy eyes. It flashed through his mind that in Mr. Bates, at any rate, he had found ...
— Corporal Cameron • Ralph Connor

... call our piggy car," says she, "for we can never ask but one other person at a time. But it's heaps better than having no car at all. And it's so fortunate we happened ...
— Torchy As A Pa • Sewell Ford



Words linked to "Piggy" :   sucking pig, gluttonous, Sus, genus Sus, hoggish, pig, young mammal



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