pig
要点豚
意味
- 豚;子豚
- 豚肉(pork)
- 《話》豚のような人(不潔な人,食いしんぼう,欲張り,非常に太った人など)
- なまこ(型に流しこんで作った鉄・鉛などの金属塊);なまこを作る型;銑鉄(せんてつ)(pig iron)
- 《俗》《軽べつして》おまわり
例文
We pigged out on pizza and chicken at lunchtime.
僕たちは昼飯にピザとチキンをたらふく食べた。
In her home, kitchen garbage was fed to the pigs.
彼女の家では、生ゴミはブタの餌にされていた。
Right then, I'm going to eat like a pig today!
よーし、今日は食うぞお。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
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". Compare Middle Dutch pogge, puggen, pigge, pegsken (> dialectal Dutch pogge (“piglet”)), Middle Low German pugge (> Westphalian German Low German Pogge, Pugge, Püggsken (“pig, piglet”)).
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