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say it: PIG-ee
piggy is a noun and adjective meaning "a young pig". It is pronounced /ˈpɪɡi/ — PIG-ee. It carries 2 recorded senses.
a young pig
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”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for piggy come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.