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Meanings of piggy in English
Resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy.
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Examples for "piglet"
Examples for "piglet"
1
Most parameters changed with age or differed with the piglet's birth weight.
2
You have this baby piglet and think it is an amazing thing.
3
A young woman was suckling a newborn piglet that had been orphaned.
4
He moved on, stopped to buy that piglet he'd been hungry for.
5
The voice had sounded more like a talking piglet than a child.
1
They got a shoat and killed it, knocked it in the head.
2
He had to step over the shoat to get off the porch.
3
I know this shoat, and I know it belongs to Jack Kelso.
4
Had turkey, chickens, baked shoat, pies and cake- atablepiled up full.
5
I bawled like a cut shoat when my stepmother sewed it up.
1
If he lives, he'll be a poor shote, and no mistake.
2
The fact is we killed a shote the other day.
3
Peegvish et me is out for long hunt vid much pemmican, poodre an' shote.
4
You think because your sister's the teacher you can run wild like a mountain shote.
5
But Madge, ye hoyden, heard noe more,-straightway upon her heele turnt shee, & shote ye cottage doore.
Usage of piggy in English
1
The new voluntary reporting system will piggy-back a new brand documentation system.
2
Turning automated teller machines into your personal piggy bank is easy-alarminglyeasy.
3
They were among the first to be arrested for piggy-backing in Britain.
4
He had all the cash he needed from Svavelsjö MC's piggy bank.
5
She buys a piggy bank to start saving for a new ukulele.
6
Billosaur, a piggy bank for the upwardly mobile from Le Mouton Noir.
7
All the time that piggy ate, he was considering what to do.
8
Mr. Wagge's small piggy eyes had fixed themselves on the little trees.
9
They won't break the piggy bank either, just temporarily lighten his load.
10
He had seen her little piggy eyes every time he turned around.
11
He looked her slowly up and down, his piggy little eyes bulging.
12
It's the family piggy bank, and now it's sprung a big hole.
13
It was my first piggy bank withdrawal from fighting with a bloody-
14
His face had swelled with blood, turning his eyes into piggy slits.
15
He had a horrible piggy face and a mouth with missing teeth.
16
He said the piggy bank was better in a digital form.
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United States of America
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United Kingdom
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