oink

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Recent Examples of oink This sweet piglet oinks, walks, and wags its tail, making playtime feel like farm life. Jacquelyn Smith, Parents, 2 Nov. 2024 This oink vichy seersucker shirt dress is crafted from 100% Italian cotton and combines cute puff sleeves and lace detailing on the collar, along with practical side pockets and a waist tie. Felicity Carter, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2023 And the oink doesn't stop there, with a layer of ham and bacon added to the mix along with beautiful slices of avocado, shredded lettuce and a creamy cheese spread to boot. Chuck Blount, San Antonio Express-News, 11 Nov. 2022 With a focus toward fresh and local, the menu at downtown’s West Table Kitchen and Bar changes daily, but expect some sort of moo, cluck, swish or oink, including ribeye, duck, trout or pork chop. Mary Ann Anderson, Twin Cities, 20 July 2019 A few weeks ago, a tiny baby pig suddenly started popping up in her Instagram Stories, making adorable mini oinks and getting cozy on her bed. Andrea Park, Teen Vogue, 25 Sep. 2018 Among the new offerings: the Oink Cluck Moo, a combination beef hot dog (the moo), chicken fingers (the cluck) and pulled pork (the oink). Chris Kaltenbach, baltimoresun.com, 10 July 2018 Even though Laura the piglet speaks in oinks and Marina in meows, the two have formed a sweet and inseparable bond. Maria Yagoda, PEOPLE.com, 8 June 2018 The Black Pig, 2801 Bridge St. (Ohio City), Cleveland, 216-862-7551, theblackpigcleveland.com: Almost hog heaven, there's a whole lot of oink on this menu. cleveland.com, 25 July 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for oink
Noun
  • How moo moo came to be be The Facebook group and the resulting moo moo movement began with a conversation between Huckins and a friend, according to both women.
    Eric D. Lawrence, USA Today, 12 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Certain bark layers, saps, and other plant matter can actually photoluminesce.
    Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 16 Oct. 2025
  • There is a large amount of insect activity or excessive holes in the bark leaking sap.
    Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 15 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Sophi of course squeals, which puts the pink-haired frontwoman on the outs with mostly everyone.
    Nick Caruso, TVLine, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Instead of chocolate or a throwaway trinket, this calendar delivers 25 days of genuine squeal-worthy surprises.
    Katie Ann Lehman, StyleCaster, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Doing this yelp as a human may work when training certain dogs, but the AKC advises that with some puppies, this could actually get the puppy more worked up and likely to bite.
    Rachael O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
  • The complacent faces of phony mediums swirl in my head, along with unsettling spirit photographs and images of puppies that had died with a sudden yelp for no apparent reason.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Not all Republicans agreed, but their bleats of complaint hardly suggested a Congress that had finally found the moment to reassert its institutional prerogatives.
    Susan B. Glasser, New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2025
  • This album might’ve broken trap music for good, melting it into a puddle of bleats and hiccups that hit like ASMR whispers and stipple sounds.
    Pitchfork, Pitchfork, 30 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • As experts departed, quacks arrived.
    Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Medallion’s Derek Lo figures that his software can cut through the system’s redundancies, slashing the time and cost of paperwork designed to prevent quacks from practicing medicine and safeguard patients that’s spiraled into something burdensome.
    Amy Feldman, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • They are known to work in teams when hunting, and communicate with chirps, growls, whistles and body language.
    Rachael O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Today’s Wordle Etymology The word chirp comes from Middle English chirpen (also spelled chirpyn), which was an imitative verb formed to mimic the short, sharp sounds of small birds or insects.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Foxes use a variety of calls, including barks, howls, yaps, and growls.
    Arricca Elin SanSone, Southern Living, 6 Aug. 2025
  • But Wednesday down in Dove Valley felt like a level of intensity these Broncos hadn’t reached all offseason, emotions and bellows and yaps hinging on nearly every rep during team work.
    Luca Evans, Denver Post, 31 July 2025

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“Oink.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oink. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.

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