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Meanings of piggy in English
Resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy.
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Examples for "porcine"
Examples for "porcine"
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Materials and methods: In vitro porcine kidneys were submerged in degassed water.
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Afterward, they practiced on a porcine animal model of bilateral renal lithiasis.
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Select studies were performed using porcine sclera with and without choroid-Bruch's layer.
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An acid-stable IGF binding protein was isolated and purified from porcine serum.
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Genic transcriptome pertinent to porcine muscle and adipose also came into study.
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She knows me; and I never in my life found her piggish.
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It looks very splendid there, but I feel piggish to have it.
3
It was Mahey's piggish chauffeur standing next to the cherry red limo.
4
Again a Lett, again no eyebrows over the same piggish eyes.
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The metal made a piggish sound, squealing as the bars ruptured.
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And yet here they could carouse, and lose themselves in swinish indulgence!
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I, however, say unto you: To the swine all things become swinish!
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She could love him, polluted and swinish in the low sinks of womankind.
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Tribes that have swinish traits were destroyers there and will be destroyers here.
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But there was nothing swinish about Mrs. Clifford of Budleigh Salterton.
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Often in matters of passion and conquest it is a singularly hoggish hog.
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The young of the cow-bird is disproportionately large and aggressive, one might say hoggish.
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It had a black, hoggish nose, but there were fangs in its great jaws.
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The Master sent in another with a hoggish grunt which spoke of the energy behind it.
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The life we lead down there is hoggish.
Usage of piggy in English
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The new voluntary reporting system will piggy-back a new brand documentation system.
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Turning automated teller machines into your personal piggy bank is easy-alarminglyeasy.
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They were among the first to be arrested for piggy-backing in Britain.
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He had all the cash he needed from Svavelsjö MC's piggy bank.
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She buys a piggy bank to start saving for a new ukulele.
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Billosaur, a piggy bank for the upwardly mobile from Le Mouton Noir.
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All the time that piggy ate, he was considering what to do.
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Mr. Wagge's small piggy eyes had fixed themselves on the little trees.
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They won't break the piggy bank either, just temporarily lighten his load.
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He had seen her little piggy eyes every time he turned around.
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He looked her slowly up and down, his piggy little eyes bulging.
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It's the family piggy bank, and now it's sprung a big hole.
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It was my first piggy bank withdrawal from fighting with a bloody-
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His face had swelled with blood, turning his eyes into piggy slits.
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He had a horrible piggy face and a mouth with missing teeth.
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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
Common