DAILY VOCABULARY WITH PICTURES. PIG

• pig [countable]
• 1

  animal

  a farm animal with short legs, a fat body, and a curved tail. Pigs are kept for their meat, which includes pork, bacon and ham [= hogAmerican English]
• He kept pigs and poultry.
• 2

  person

  spoken
• a) someone who eats too much or eats more than their share:
• You greedy pig, you ate all the candy!
• I made a bit of a pig of myself (=ate too much) at dinner.
• b) someone who is unpleasant in some way, for example unkind or very untidy:
• They live like pigs in that house over the road.
• You can tell him from me he's an ignorant pig.
• (male) chauvinist pig (=a man who thinks women are not equal to men)
• 3

  police

  taboo informal an offensive word for a police officer. Do not use this word.
• 4

   a pig (of a something)

  British English spoken something that is very difficult or unpleasant to do:
• They're improving, and they're a pig of a team to beat.
• 5

   make a pig's ear of something

  British English spoken to do something very badly:
• Someone's made a right pig's ear of these repairs.
• 6

   in a pig's eye

  American English spoken informal used to show that you do not believe what someone is saying
• 7

   pig in a poke

  spoken something you bought without seeing it first and that is not as good or valuable as you expected:
• What if the car you buy turns out to be a pig in a poke?
• 8

   pigs might fly

  spoken used to say that you do not think something will happen:
• 'Someone might have handed in your pass.' 'Yes, and pigs might fly.'

Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Advanced Learner's Dictionary.