cochon de lait

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   whole young pig suitable for roasting

   Synonymssuckling pig

   Broaderpork

Questions about cochon de lait

What does cochon de lait mean?

cochon de lait means "whole young pig suitable for roasting".

What is another word for cochon de lait?

Close synonyms include suckling pig. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cochon de lait a common word?

cochon de lait is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.