Associations to the word «Piggy»

Pictures for the word «Piggy»

Wiktionary

PIGGY, noun. (hypocoristic) A pig (the animal).
PIGGY, noun. (hypocoristic) A guinea pig.
PIGGY, noun. (hypocoristic) (slang) A toe.
PIGGY, noun. (mildly derogatory) A pig, a greedy person.
PIGGY, noun. (derogatory) (slang) (UK) A member of the police.
PIGGY, adjective. Greedy
PIGGY, adjective. Slovenly, dirty
PIGGY BANK, noun. A small container, sometimes in the form of a pig, to store small saved coins in. Often the "bank" must be broken open to retrieve the contents.
PIGGY BANKS, noun. Plural of piggy bank
PIGGY FLU, noun. (childish) Synonym of swine flu.
PIGGY IN THE MIDDLE, noun. A game where one group has to keep an object, normally a ball, within their group and away from another group or individual.
PIGGY IN THE MIDDLE, noun. (by extension) Keeping something between one's own group, away from others.
PIGGY IN THE MIDDLE, noun. A person caught in an awkward situation between two other people.
PIGGY WIGGIES, noun. Plural of piggy wiggy
PIGGY WIGGY, noun. (UK) (puerile or endearing) a pig.

Dictionary definition

PIGGY, noun. A young pig.
PIGGY, adjective. 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".

Wise words

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.