as in hog
one who eats greedily or too much
all-you-can-eat buffets seem to encourage some people to become shameless pigs
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Another night might be built around Balinese-style suckling pig with turmeric rice, aubergine stir-fried with chilli, and banana doughnuts rolled in coconut curd and cinnamon sugar.
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Lela London, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
Alpha-gal is a sugar molecule found in most mammals, including cows, pigs and sheep, but not in humans.
—Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 29 Aug. 2025
Later in episode 10, Peggy wants to invest her portion of her nest egg in a wild pig-hunting business in order to clear Redcorn’s farm of invasive feral hogs.
—Jake Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Aug. 2025
Guests also visit the lodge’s organic gardens and pig pens, where food waste from the restaurant feeds the resident pigs.
—Devorah Lev-Tov, AFAR Media, 26 Aug. 2025
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Lela London, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
Alpha-gal is a sugar molecule found in most mammals, including cows, pigs and sheep, but not in humans.
—Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 29 Aug. 2025
Later in episode 10, Peggy wants to invest her portion of her nest egg in a wild pig-hunting business in order to clear Redcorn’s farm of invasive feral hogs.
—Jake Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Aug. 2025
Guests also visit the lodge’s organic gardens and pig pens, where food waste from the restaurant feeds the resident pigs.
—Devorah Lev-Tov, AFAR Media, 26 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pig
hog
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Later in episode 10, Peggy wants to invest her portion of her nest egg in a wild pig-hunting business in order to clear Redcorn’s farm of invasive feral hogs.—
Jake Harris,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
29 Aug. 2025
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Wallace is a goat-owning, hog-hunting, anime-loving, fast-talking personification of energy.—
Alex Zietlow,
Charlotte Observer,
28 Aug. 2025
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“Pig.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pig. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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