Read full poem →October store, and best Virginia,
Tithe-pig, and mortuary guinea:
Gazettes sent gratis down, and frank'd,
Dictionary Entry
Any of several intelligent mammalian species of the genus Sus, having cloven hooves, bristles and a nose adapted for digging; especially the domesticated animal Sus scrofa.
In a Sentence
“The man kept a pen with two pigs that he fed from carrots to cabbage.”
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Origin
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Common Phrases
. pigiron pigpig guineapig littlepig wild
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Poetry examples for “pig”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Saving the may-weed and the pig-weed
Nothing will know that you are dead,--
Read full poem →stick, and steer,
Pig, turkey, goose, and duck, Christmas Corpses
to be.
Read full poem →Thus he rested, far less like a man than
His wheel-barrow in profile was like a pig.
But when I saw it was an old man bent,
Read full poem →I come to you as a grown child
Who has had a pig-headed father;
I am old enough now to make friends.
Read full poem →And in the dimpling water-pudge you waddle in and out;
Your home is nigh at hand, and in the warm pig-stye,
So, little Master Wagtail, I'll bid you a good-bye.
Read full poem →Baldwin Oscar R r 518 W Emaus av
Balik Joseph r rr 140 Sycamore....... pig eet
Balis Sam C Mrs r 122 S 6