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单词 piggy
释义
piggy
noun[C]
child's word
uk
/ˈpɪɡ.i/us
/ˈpɪɡ.i/
apig:
猪，小猪
Look at thosecutelittle piggies, James!看那些可爱的小猪，詹姆斯！
See also
pignoun(ANIMAL)
picture of piggy
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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Pigs
  • boar
  • hog
  • pig
  • piglet
  • porcine
  • porker
  • sow
  • swine
  • warthog
  • wild boar

You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:

Greedy
piggy
adjective
informaldisapproving
uk
/ˈpɪɡ.i/us
/ˈpɪɡ.i/
like apig:
像猪的
He's got little piggyeyes.他长着猪眼似的小眼睛。
Synonyms
hoggish
swinishold-fashioned
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Not attractive to look at
  • back end
  • be no oil paintingidiom
  • be not much to look atidiom
  • bleakly
  • bleakness
  • chintzy
  • excrescence
  • gopping
  • gracelessly
  • hatchet-faced
  • have a face like the back end of a busidiom
  • hideous
  • hideousness
  • pretty
  • pretty-pretty
  • reptilian
  • scrappily
  • scrappy
  • vulgarity
  • vulgarly
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(Definition ofpiggyfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

piggy| American Dictionary

piggy
noun[C]
a child’s word(alsopiggie)
us
/ˈpɪɡ·i/
pig
(Definition ofpiggyfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofpiggy

piggy
Instead, it makes more sense if every pigfarmer sets up his own reserve, i.e. if every pigfarmer has his ownpiggybank.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
To play the game, one player is chosen to be the farmer; the others are the piggies.
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The piggies all switch chairs so that the farmer will not know who is sitting where.
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The piggies were under the false impression that humans reproduced in a fashion similar to themselves.
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Will he not be all the morepiggyin the middle?
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I shall go forpiggyin the middle.
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They are cast in the role ofpiggyin the middle, confused by the changing world.
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Piggy-backing on these informal arrangements can lessen considerably t he need for external imposition of formal institutional arrangements.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Policymakers get to make rules, but dodge responsibility for them, bypiggy-backing on the decisions of others, whom they can blame when things go wrong.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Researchers thinking of 'piggy-backing ' on national surveys have to be prepared to set aside time and financial resources to negotiate the complexities of securing access to potential samples.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The ombudsman is, in a sense, thepiggyin the middle who has to referee many such matters.
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I look forward to much greater use being made of the "piggy-back" concept where standard lorry trailers are carried on rail wagons.
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In these times of inflation, which are here to stay, thepiggybank is a poor loser, and the land the outright winner.
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However, that authority does not have apiggybank.
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We should not ask them to playpiggyin the middle again.
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