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How to pronounce piggy in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms piglet, shoat, shote
Type of young mammal
Has types sucking pig
Type Words
Synonyms hoggish, piggish, porcine, swinish
Derivation pig


the piggy fat-cheeked little boy and his porcine pot-bellied father.

Examples of piggy

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The new Kindle line-up piggy-backs on a number of recent Amazon accomplishments.
From the guardian.co.uk
Growing up with a piggy bank and conservative parents can have an effect on you.
From the omaha.com
Downstairs lives a little boy named Zack, who has an anthropomorphic piggy bank.
From the post-gazette.com
Nearly every powerful interest group in the country emptied its piggy bank here.
From the newsobserver.com
Once this shaman-showman had seized kids'minds, he could raid their piggy banks.
From the time.com
For homeowners, negative equity makes houses more like a trap than a piggy bank.
From the economist.com
It is neither a current piggy bank, nor a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
From the economist.com
Louis Cardinals World Series replica ring, a Redbirds piggy bank, and a gym bag.
From the orlandosentinel.com
The Dodgers are a storied franchise, not a personal piggy bank for their owner.
From the sportsillustrated.cnn.com
More examples
  • Hoggish: resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy; "piggish table manners"; "the piggy fat-cheeked little boy and his porcine pot-bellied father"; "swinish slavering over food"
  • Piglet: a young pig
  • This is a list of characters seen in the American animated television series Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends.
  • Lord of the Flies is a novel by Nobel Prize-winning author William Golding. It is about group of British schoolboys stuck on a deserted island who try to govern themselves, with disastrous results. ...
  • Piggy is an animated cartoon character in the Merrie Melodies series of films distributed by Warner Bros.. The character first appeared as a fat, black pig who wears a pair of shorts with buttons on the front. ...
  • Piggy is an alien character in '''' played by Barnie Duncan.
  • A pig (the animal); toes; A pig, a greedy person; greedy; slovenly, dirty
  • A nickname for the stadium when it was PGE Park.
  • Adjective used to describe a female in late gestation