## Meanings
1. A farm animal with a fat body, short legs, and a flat nose, kept for its meat.
2. The meat from a pig; pork.
3. Someone who eats too much, too fast, or in a messy way.
4. A rude or unpleasant person who behaves in a dirty or selfish way.

## Examples
- The farmer kept three pigs in a pen behind the barn.
- Some religions do not allow people to eat pig.
- You greedy pig, you've eaten all the cake!
- He is a real pig who never cleans up after himself.

## Synonyms
- grice
- hog
- oinker
- piggy
- porker
- squealer
- swine

## Derived Forms
- antipig
- deer-pig
- earth-pig
- earthpig
- enviropig
- fuckpig
- furze-pig
- guinea-pig
- hedgepig
- housepig
- micropig
- minipig

## Related Forms
- hoggish
- pannage
- piggery
- pigpen
- pigsty
- porciform
- porcine

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: pigge
- Root: *picga
- Root: *puk

## Etymology
From Middle English pigge (“pig, piglet”) (originally a term for a young pig, with adult pigs being swyn (“swine”)), from Old English *picga, *pycga (attested in picgbrēad (“mast, pig-fodder”)), perhaps a diminutive of Proto-West Germanic *puk, *pūk (“pig”), which also gave rise to Middle Low German pûke, puyke (“pig, piglet”). Pokorny suggests this root might be somehow related to *bū-, *bew- (“to blow; swell”), which could account for the alternation between "pig" and "big". Compare Middle Dutch pogge, puggen, pigge, pegsken (> dialectal Dutch pogge (“piglet”)), Middle Low German pugge (> We…

## AI Etymology
Pig comes from Middle English pigge (“pig, piglet”) (originally a term for a young pig, with adult pigs being swyn (“swine”)), from Old English *picga, *pycga (attested in picgbrēad (“mast, pig-fodder”)), perhaps a diminutive of Proto-West Germanic *puk, *pūk (“pig”), which also gave rise to Middle Low German pûke, puyke (“pig, piglet”). Pokorny suggests this root might be somehow related to *bū-, *bew- (“to blow; swell”), which could account for the alternation between "pig" and "big". The historical chain includes pigge (Middle English), *picga (Old English), *puk (Proto-West Germanic). In present-day English it covers a farm animal with a fat body, short legs, and a flat nose, kept for its meat, the meat from a pig; pork, and someone who eats too much, too fast, or in a messy way. The wider family includes derived forms such as antipig, deer-pig, earth-pig, earthpig, enviropig and related forms such as hoggish, pannage, piggery, pigpen.

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