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Science Fair Project Dictionary
Pig
Pronunciation
Noun
pig (plural pigs or swine)
- A mammal of the genus Sus, often raised on farms for meat.
- A greedy person; someone who overeats or has eats rapidly and noisily.
- A nasty person.
- A dirty person.
- (derogatory slang) A police officer.
- A difficult problem.
Scientific name
- Sus scrofa , Sus scrofa domesticus
Translations
mammal
- Albanian: derri
- Basque: txerri
- Belarussian: свіння
- Bosnian: svinja f
- Breton: pemoc’h m moc'h plural
- Bulgarian: свиня (svinja )
- Catalan: porc m, truja f
- Cebuano: baboy
- CJK Characters: 豬, 猪; 豚
- Chinese: 豬, 猪 (zhū)
- Croatian: svinja
- Czech: prase
- Danish: svin
- Dutch: zwijn n, varken n
- Esperanto: porko
- Estonian: siga
- Faroese: svín
- Finnish: sika
- French: cochon m, porc m
- Frisian: baarch
- Friulian: purcit
- Gallegan: porco
- German: Schwein m
- Greek: γουρούνι , χοίρος
- Hungarian: sertés , disznó (moved over here as a translation of Dutch zwijn, swine)
- Icelandic: svín
- Interlingua: porco
- Irish: muc
- Italian: maiale m, porco m
- Japanese: 豚 (ぶた , buta)
- Ladin: porcel
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greedy person
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- Italian: porco m, maiale m
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nasty person
- Bosnian: svinja f
- Finnish: ilkimys
- French: salaud m
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- Italian: bastardo m, bastarda f, stronzo m, stronza f
- Latvian: cūka f
- Slovene: svinja f, prasec m
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dirty person
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- Latvian: cūka f
- Slovene: prašič m
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derogatory slang: police officer
- French: flic
- Verlan: ceuf
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difficult problem
Adjective
- Used in certain set phrases to mean imitation, not real.
- pig Latin
- pig iron
Derived terms
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