pig
/ˈpɪɡ/ nom A1En français : cochon, porc, poulet, flic
- Any of several mammalian species of the family Suidae, having cloven hooves, bristles and a snout adapted for digging; especially the domesticated animal Sus domesticus. · The man kept a pen with two pigs that he fed everything from carrots to cabbage.
- A young swine, a piglet (contrasted with a hog, an adult swine).
- The edible meat of such an animal; pork.
- A light pinkish-red colour, like that of a pig (also called piggy pink).
- Someone who overeats or eats rapidly and noisily. · You gluttonous pig! Now that you've eaten all the cupcakes, there will be none for the party!
- A lecherous or sexist man. · She considered him a pig, as he invariably stared at her bosom when they talked.
- A dirty or slovenly person. · He was a pig and his apartment a pigpen; take-away containers and pizza boxes in a long, moldy stream lined his counter tops.
- An obese person.
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Dans la bibliothèque
He then took the cabbage to the room where he had rabbits—for the Abbé Adelmonte had a collection of rabbits, cats, and guinea-pigs, fully as fine as his collection of vegetables, flowers, and fruit.
Flourens, in consequence of the rabbits, cats, and guinea-pigs they have killed?
A young Pig was shut up in a fold-yard with a Goat and a Sheep.
The Wild Sow, whom you see daily digging up the earth, wishes to uproot the oak, so she may on its fall seize our families as food for her young.” Having thus frightened the Eagle out of her senses, she crept down to the cave of the Sow, and said, “Your children are in great danger; for as soon as you go out with your litter to find food, the Eagle is prepared to pounce upon one of your little pigs.” Having instilled these fears into the Sow, she went and pretended to hide herself in the hollow of the tree.
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