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pigging
7 letters · 4 distinct letters
A form of pig.
- verb
live like a pig, in squalor
- noun
domestic swine
- noun
a coarse obnoxious person
- noun
a person regarded as greedy and pig like
- noun
uncomplimentary terms for a policeman
- noun
mold consisting of a bed of sand in which pig iron is cast
Word history
History of pig
From Middle English pigge (“pig, piglet”) (originally a term for a young pig, with adult pigs being swyn (“swine”)), from Old English *picga, *pycga (attested in picgbrēad (“mast, pig fodder”)), perhaps a diminutive of Proto West Germanic *puk, *pūk (“pig”), which also gave rise to Middle Low German pûke, puyke (“pig, piglet”). Pokorny suggests this root might be somehow related to *bū, *bew (“to blow; swell”), which could account for the alternation between "pig" and "big".
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Why this word counts
- Where it comes from
- Listed in the English Speller Database at size 35: the core list of everyday words.
- How common it is
- Rarer than once in ten million words.
- In the spelling bee
- Daily answer A standard word with a definition we can show, so it can be a daily answer.