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单词 piggy
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Definition of piggy in English:

piggy

nounPlural piggies ˈpɪɡiˈpɪɡi
  • A child's word for a pig or piglet.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • ‘Well, have fun,’ David said. ‘And give the piggies my love.’
    • Some in cities are emptying their piggy banks, while others in rural areas are selling their piggies.
    • Do the programme's traumatised snakes and hunted piggies count?
    • It works like a dose of porcine valium, calming the piggies down and rendering them distinctly friendly.
    • ‘Come piggies,’ he calls to a family of plump Red River hogs.
    • Who knew so much would be riding on a little piggy?
    • These little piggies were so damned delightful, and they were running around playing like frisky kittens.
    • ‘I'm so not in spandex ’, I shouted back as I trotted up the stairs like a little piggy going to the sausage factory.
    • She was a pudgy little lady, who looked just like a piggy, right down to skin color.
    • The piggies have been running around outside all the time so should be tasty.
    • No, darling, that has nothing to do with piggies.
    • Now imagine the combined power of thousands of piggies packed into a single building, with each swine producing 10 pounds of waste per day.
    • We must seems like a bunch of little piggies in the pens to these people.
    • One of the guys knew a guy that owed him a favor so acquiring the piggies was no problem.
    • I know a bunch of the piggies ' secrets and I feel happy about that.
    • ‘I don't sing three little piggies go to market,’ says Sarah.
    Synonyms
    hog, boar, sow, porker, swine, piglet
adjective ˈpɪɡiˈpɪɡi
  • Resembling a pig, especially in features or appetite.

    (尤指面貌或胃口)似猪的,像猪一样的

    three pairs of little piggy eyes

    三双小猪眼。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Bernard stood by the door and watched him, his piggy little eyes searching for a hint of a blush, a tear, a tremor.
    • If I have to leave, I'm not getting ready to go with your little piggy eyes watching me.
    • His piggy eyes, deep set and sunken in his fat, pink head, glinted like Mercury marbles and darted left and right in confusion.
    • IT has been compared to an angry ant, a sawn-off shotgun and a wild boar, its twin headlights shining like angry piggy eyes.
    • One was big and burly, with piggy little eyes and a big lower lip that hung down.
    • The presenter was one of those creepy guys with piggy eyes, moist hands and a face that just ached to be slapped.
    • It was the movement of a small, fat, middle aged woman with a scarlet complexion, piggy eyes and a collapsing perm.
    • At this the man who had captured Darren became suddenly alert, his piggy little eyes narrowing.
    • Hannah laughed her piggy laugh again then smiled sweetly too.
    • Her face was fat and puffy and her piggy eyes were enveloped by her cheeks.
    • He is plump, with piggy little eyes and not much hair, and he wears a suit and cufflinks and scent.
    • They have tiny, piggy eyes that seem to follow me with suspicion.
    • It regards you balefully from little piggy eyes.
    • She was tall, had a stern face and piggy little eyes, and was wearing a pink plastic mac.
    • ‘You should always read Chaucer aloud,’ said a young woman with long frizzy hair, little piggy eyes behind little pink piggy spectacles and an overbearingly loud voice.
    • Her piggy eyes were too glued to the money to pay any attention to me though of course I took precautions anyway.
    • Ashley knew a threat when she heard it, and ran away as fast as her piggy legs could carry her.
    • They were very small, almost piggy, but had a piercing quality that seemed to look right through you.
    • I heard just about everyone gasp, saw a few women fainting, and the bishop's piggy eyes widen in shock.
    • Up and down the country, arts faculties swarm with undergraduates pretending to be overeducated comedians pretending to be in-bred shopkeepers with little piggy noses.
    Synonyms
    unquenchable, unappeasable, uncontrollable, voracious, prodigious, gluttonous, greedy, hungry, ravenous, ravening, wolfish, avid, eager, keen

Phrases

  • piggy (also pig) in the middle

    • 1A game in which two people attempt to throw a ball to each other without a third person in the middle catching it.

      〈主英〉(两人相互投球,另一人在中间设法抢球的)抢球游戏

      Example sentencesExamples
      • We spend many evening hours playing piggy-in-the-middle with them.
      • She said: ‘One day we brought a football and played soccer, ball games and piggy in the middle with the children.’
      • After playing piggy-in-the-middle with the children, we have breakfast at about 7.30am.
      • I mostly play games with the children like rounders and piggy in the middle.
      • Pegasus and I were playing piggy in the middle with Faith, she was in the middle.
      1. 1.1A person who is placed in an awkward situation between two others.
        夹在两人之间处境难堪的人
        I don't want to be piggy in the middle between Guido and Silvia
        Example sentencesExamples
        • We are very much piggy in the middle as we have to go along with what the council decides, but we don't believe bikers' lives will be risked by the in-fill.
        • He said: 'I have always been playing piggy-in-the-middle between the computer-science people and the applications people.
        • I just wish they could send the public on a course to tell them that receptionists are human too, and are normally playing piggy in the middle between the boss and the public.
        • It gets me so cross because they are like piggy in the middle, and can't do right for doing wrong.
        • When you become a stepparent, you find yourself not just playing Piggy in the Middle between your partner and his/her children, but often between your partner and his/her ex, your partner and your ex, your partner and your children, your children and your partner's children.
        • I am piggy in the middle at this point in time, passing diluted and sanitised versions of opinions over the phone between husband up to his eye balls at work, and plumber up a step ladder.
        • Sterling has been piggy in the middle between the dollar and the euro.
        • And as ever, the UN is playing piggy in the middle.

Rhymes

ciggy, spriggy

Definition of piggy in US English:

piggy

nounˈpɪɡiˈpiɡē
  • (used by or when talking to children) a pig or piglet.

    〈儿〉猪;小猪

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Who knew so much would be riding on a little piggy?
    • We must seems like a bunch of little piggies in the pens to these people.
    • She was a pudgy little lady, who looked just like a piggy, right down to skin color.
    • Now imagine the combined power of thousands of piggies packed into a single building, with each swine producing 10 pounds of waste per day.
    • These little piggies were so damned delightful, and they were running around playing like frisky kittens.
    • ‘I'm so not in spandex ’, I shouted back as I trotted up the stairs like a little piggy going to the sausage factory.
    • ‘Well, have fun,’ David said. ‘And give the piggies my love.’
    • It works like a dose of porcine valium, calming the piggies down and rendering them distinctly friendly.
    • One of the guys knew a guy that owed him a favor so acquiring the piggies was no problem.
    • Do the programme's traumatised snakes and hunted piggies count?
    • ‘Come piggies,’ he calls to a family of plump Red River hogs.
    • Some in cities are emptying their piggy banks, while others in rural areas are selling their piggies.
    • I know a bunch of the piggies ' secrets and I feel happy about that.
    • No, darling, that has nothing to do with piggies.
    • ‘I don't sing three little piggies go to market,’ says Sarah.
    • The piggies have been running around outside all the time so should be tasty.
    Synonyms
    hog, boar, sow, porker, swine, piglet
adjectiveˈpɪɡiˈpiɡē
  • Resembling a pig, especially in features or appetite.

    (尤指面貌或胃口)似猪的,像猪一样的

    three pairs of little piggy eyes

    三双小猪眼。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • One was big and burly, with piggy little eyes and a big lower lip that hung down.
    • They have tiny, piggy eyes that seem to follow me with suspicion.
    • They were very small, almost piggy, but had a piercing quality that seemed to look right through you.
    • ‘You should always read Chaucer aloud,’ said a young woman with long frizzy hair, little piggy eyes behind little pink piggy spectacles and an overbearingly loud voice.
    • Her piggy eyes were too glued to the money to pay any attention to me though of course I took precautions anyway.
    • IT has been compared to an angry ant, a sawn-off shotgun and a wild boar, its twin headlights shining like angry piggy eyes.
    • Hannah laughed her piggy laugh again then smiled sweetly too.
    • It was the movement of a small, fat, middle aged woman with a scarlet complexion, piggy eyes and a collapsing perm.
    • Ashley knew a threat when she heard it, and ran away as fast as her piggy legs could carry her.
    • His piggy eyes, deep set and sunken in his fat, pink head, glinted like Mercury marbles and darted left and right in confusion.
    • Bernard stood by the door and watched him, his piggy little eyes searching for a hint of a blush, a tear, a tremor.
    • At this the man who had captured Darren became suddenly alert, his piggy little eyes narrowing.
    • It regards you balefully from little piggy eyes.
    • I heard just about everyone gasp, saw a few women fainting, and the bishop's piggy eyes widen in shock.
    • The presenter was one of those creepy guys with piggy eyes, moist hands and a face that just ached to be slapped.
    • Her face was fat and puffy and her piggy eyes were enveloped by her cheeks.
    • She was tall, had a stern face and piggy little eyes, and was wearing a pink plastic mac.
    • If I have to leave, I'm not getting ready to go with your little piggy eyes watching me.
    • Up and down the country, arts faculties swarm with undergraduates pretending to be overeducated comedians pretending to be in-bred shopkeepers with little piggy noses.
    • He is plump, with piggy little eyes and not much hair, and he wears a suit and cufflinks and scent.
    Synonyms
    unquenchable, unappeasable, uncontrollable, voracious, prodigious, gluttonous, greedy, hungry, ravenous, ravening, wolfish, avid, eager, keen
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