| piggish | | |
| adj. | 1. hoggish, piggish, piggy, porcine, swinish | resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy.; "piggish table manners"; "the piggy fat-cheeked little boy and his porcine pot-bellied father"; "swinish slavering over food" |
| ~ gluttonous | given to excess in consumption of especially food or drink.; "over-fed women and their gluttonous husbands"; "a gluttonous debauch"; "a gluttonous appetite for food and praise and pleasure" |
| corner | | |
| n. (location) | 1. corner | a place off to the side of an area.; "he tripled to the rightfield corner"; "the southeastern corner of the Mediterranean" |
| ~ area, country | a particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).; "it was a mountainous area"; "Bible country" |
| n. (location) | 2. corner | the point where two lines meet or intersect.; "the corners of a rectangle" |
| ~ canthus | either of the corners of the eye where the upper and lower eyelids meet. |
| ~ point | the precise location of something; a spatially limited location.; "she walked to a point where she could survey the whole street" |
| n. (artifact) | 3. corner, nook | an interior angle formed by two meeting walls.; "a piano was in one corner of the room" |
| ~ amen corner | area reserved for persons leading the responsive `amens'. |
| ~ area | a part of a structure having some specific characteristic or function.; "the spacious cooking area provided plenty of room for servants" |
| ~ building, edifice | a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place.; "there was a three-story building on the corner"; "it was an imposing edifice" |
| ~ chimney corner, inglenook | a corner by a fireplace. |
| n. (artifact) | 4. corner, street corner, turning point | the intersection of two streets.; "standing on the corner watching all the girls go by" |
| ~ blind corner | a street corner that you cannot see around as you are driving. |
| ~ carrefour, crossroad, crossway, intersection, crossing | a junction where one street or road crosses another. |
| n. (location) | 5. corner | the point where three areas or surfaces meet or intersect.; "the corners of a cube" |
| ~ point | the precise location of something; a spatially limited location.; "she walked to a point where she could survey the whole street" |
| n. (shape) | 6. corner, niche, recess, recession | a small concavity. |
| ~ pharyngeal recess | a small recess in the wall of the pharynx. |
| ~ concave shape, concavity, incurvation, incurvature | a shape that curves or bends inward. |
| n. (state) | 7. corner | a temporary monopoly on a kind of commercial trade.; "a corner on the silver market" |
| ~ monopoly | (economics) a market in which there are many buyers but only one seller.; "a monopoly on silver"; "when you have a monopoly you can ask any price you like" |
| n. (state) | 8. box, corner | a predicament from which a skillful or graceful escape is impossible.; "his lying got him into a tight corner" |
| ~ plight, predicament, quandary | a situation from which extrication is difficult especially an unpleasant or trying one.; "finds himself in a most awkward predicament"; "the woeful plight of homeless people" |
| n. (object) | 9. corner | a projecting part where two sides or edges meet.; "he knocked off the corners" |
| ~ part, piece | a portion of a natural object.; "they analyzed the river into three parts"; "he needed a piece of granite" |
| n. (location) | 10. corner | a remote area.; "in many corners of the world they still practice slavery" |
| ~ area, country | a particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).; "it was a mountainous area"; "Bible country" |
| n. (artifact) | 11. corner, quoin | (architecture) solid exterior angle of a building; especially one formed by a cornerstone. |
| ~ building, edifice | a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place.; "there was a three-story building on the corner"; "it was an imposing edifice" |
| ~ structure, construction | a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts.; "the structure consisted of a series of arches"; "she wore her hair in an amazing construction of whirls and ribbons" |
| ~ architecture | the discipline dealing with the principles of design and construction and ornamentation of fine buildings.; "architecture and eloquence are mixed arts whose end is sometimes beauty and sometimes use" |
| v. (social) | 12. corner | gain control over.; "corner the gold market" |
| ~ control, command | exercise authoritative control or power over.; "control the budget"; "Command the military forces" |
| v. (motion) | 13. corner, tree | force a person or an animal into a position from which he cannot escape. |
| ~ channelise, channelize, guide, maneuver, steer, manoeuver, manoeuvre, point, head, direct | direct the course; determine the direction of travelling. |
| v. (motion) | 14. corner | turn a corner.; "the car corners" |
| ~ turn | change orientation or direction, also in the abstract sense.; "Turn towards me"; "The mugger turned and fled before I could see his face"; "She turned from herself and learned to listen to others' needs" |
| pig | | |
| n. (animal) | 1. grunter, hog, pig, squealer, sus scrofa | domestic swine. |
| ~ swine | stout-bodied short-legged omnivorous animals. |
| ~ genus sus, sus | type genus of the Suidae. |
| ~ porker | a pig fattened to provide meat. |
| ~ trotter | foot of a pig or sheep especially one used as food. |
| ~ porc, pork | meat from a domestic hog or pig. |
| ~ lard | soft white semisolid fat obtained by rendering the fatty tissue of the hog. |
| n. (person) | 2. pig, slob, sloven, slovenly person | a coarse obnoxious person. |
| ~ litter lout, litterbug, litterer | a person who litters public places with refuse. |
| ~ slovenly woman, slut, trollop, slattern | a dirty untidy woman. |
| ~ vulgarian | a vulgar person (especially someone who makes a vulgar display of wealth). |
| n. (person) | 3. hog, pig | a person regarded as greedy and pig-like. |
| ~ selfish person | a person who is unusually selfish. |
| n. (person) | 4. bull, cop, copper, fuzz, pig | uncomplimentary terms for a policeman. |
| ~ colloquialism | a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech. |
| ~ police officer, policeman, officer | a member of a police force.; "it was an accident, officer" |
| n. (artifact) | 5. pig, pig bed | mold consisting of a bed of sand in which pig iron is cast. |
| ~ cast, mold, mould | container into which liquid is poured to create a given shape when it hardens. |
| n. (artifact) | 6. pig | a crude block of metal (lead or iron) poured from a smelting furnace. |
| ~ block of metal, ingot, metal bar | metal that is cast in the shape of a block for convenient handling. |
| v. (stative) | 7. pig, pig it | live like a pig, in squalor. |
| ~ live | lead a certain kind of life; live in a certain style.; "we had to live frugally after the war" |
| v. (consumption) | 8. devour, guttle, pig, raven | eat greedily.; "he devoured three sandwiches" |
| ~ eat | take in solid food.; "She was eating a banana"; "What did you eat for dinner last night?" |
| v. (body) | 9. farrow, pig | give birth.; "sows farrow" |
| ~ birth, give birth, bear, deliver, have | cause to be born.; "My wife had twins yesterday!" |
| pork | | |
| n. (food) | 1. porc, pork | meat from a domestic hog or pig. |
| ~ pig, grunter, squealer, sus scrofa, hog | domestic swine. |
| ~ meat | the flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food. |
| ~ cut of pork | cut of meat from a hog or pig. |
| ~ cochon de lait, suckling pig | whole young pig suitable for roasting. |
| ~ pork loin | meat from a loin of pork. |
| ~ salt pork | fat from the back and sides and belly of a hog carcass cured with salt. |
| ~ pigs' feet, pigs' knuckles | feet or knuckles of hogs used as food; pickled or stewed or jellied. |
| n. (possession) | 2. pork, pork barrel | a legislative appropriation designed to ingratiate legislators with their constituents. |
| ~ appropriation | money set aside (as by a legislature) for a specific purpose. |
| sloven | | |
| swine | | |
| n. (animal) | 1. swine | stout-bodied short-legged omnivorous animals. |
| ~ artiodactyl, artiodactyl mammal, even-toed ungulate | placental mammal having hooves with an even number of functional toes on each foot. |
| ~ family suidae, suidae | pigs; hogs; boars. |
| ~ pig, grunter, squealer, sus scrofa, hog | domestic swine. |
| ~ boar | an uncastrated male hog. |
| ~ sow | an adult female hog. |
| ~ razorback, razorback hog, razorbacked hog | a mongrel hog with a thin body and long legs and a ridged back; a wild or semi-wild descendant of improved breeds; found chiefly in the southeastern United States. |
| ~ boar, sus scrofa, wild boar | Old World wild swine having a narrow body and prominent tusks from which most domestic swine come; introduced in United States. |
| ~ babiroussa, babirusa, babirussa, babyrousa babyrussa | Indonesian wild pig with enormous curved canine teeth. |
| ~ warthog | African wild swine with warty protuberances on the face and large protruding tusks. |
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