piggy

POS

Adjective, Noun

HYPHEN

pig=gy

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun piggy has 1 sense

piggy(n = noun.animal) piglet, shoat, shote - a young pig; Array

is a kind of young mammal

is a member of genus sus, sus

has particulars: sucking pig

Derived form adjective piggy₁

Adjective piggy has 1 sense

piggy(s = adj.all) hoggish, piggish, 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"

Derived forms noun pig₃, noun piggy₁

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

piggy, n. & adj.
--n. (also piggie) colloq.
1 a little pig.
2 a a child's word for a pig. b a child's word for a toe.
3 Brit. the game of tipcat.
--adj. (piggier, piggiest)
1 like a pig.
2 (of features etc.) like those of a pig (little piggy eyes).

Idiom

piggy bank a pig-shaped money box. piggy in the middle = pig in the middle.

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