piggy
Noun:
- A young pig: A small or baby pig, often used affectionately or in children's contexts.
- A small container for saving coins, typically shaped like a pig: A piggy bank.
Adjective:
- Resembling a pig; coarsely gluttonous or greedy: Having characteristics associated with pigs, such as greediness or messy eating habits. This usage is often informal and can be mildly critical or descriptive.
Noun:
- The children saw a tiny piggy at the farm.
- She saved all her pennies in her ceramic piggy.
Adjective:
- He had piggy eyes that seemed too small for his face.
- Her piggy table manners were quite off-putting.
"Piggy in the middle": A children's game where two players throw a ball to each other and a third player in the middle tries to catch it; metaphorically, a person caught between two opposing sides.
- During their argument, I felt like piggy in the middle.
"Piggyback": To carry someone on one's back and shoulders; or, to attach or add something to an existing system or plan. (Note: This is a compound word listed separately as a variant).
- The child asked for a piggyback ride.
- We can piggyback our proposal onto the main project.
- Piggyback (noun, verb, adverb): As described in 'Advanced Usage'.
- Piggish (adjective): Greedy or behaving like a pig. (A stronger synonym for the adjectival sense of 'piggy').
- Piglet (noun): A very young pig; a more standard term for a baby pig.
- Noun (young pig): Piglet, shoat, farrow.
- Adjective (greedy/gluttonous): Greedy, gluttonous, swinish, voracious.
(Note: 'Piggy' itself does not commonly form phrasal verbs. The related compound 'piggyback' functions as a phrasal verb.) - To piggyback on something: To use something that already exists or is already happening in order to get an advantage for yourself. - The new software piggybacks on the existing network.
- "This little piggy went to market...": The first line of a traditional nursery rhyme or toe-counting game for very young children.
- She played "This little piggy..." with the baby's toes.
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resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy
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piggish table manners
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the piggy fat-cheeked little boy and his porcine pot-bellied father
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swinish slavering over food
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a young pig
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