Pig vs Smorgasbord - What's the difference?
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Any of several mammalian species of the genus Sus'', having cloven hooves, bristles and a nose adapted for digging; especially the domesticated farm animal ''Sus scrofa .
(lb) A young swine, a piglet .
* 2005 April, Live Swine from Canada, Investigation No. 731-TA-1076 (Final), publication 3766, April 2005, U.S. International Trade Commission (ISBN 1457819899), page I-9:
(uncountable) The edible meat of such an animal; pork.
* 2005 , Ross Eddy Osborn, Thorns of a Tainted Rose (ISBN 0741425319), page 196:
Someone who overeats or eats rapidly and noisily.
A nasty or disgusting person.
A dirty or slovenly person.
* 1989 , , (Carrion Comfort) ,
* 1990 , Jay Robert Nash, Encyclopedia of World Crime: Volume 1: A-C ,
* 2008 , Frank Kusch, Battleground Chicago: The Police and the 1968 Democratic National Convention ,
* 2011 , T. J. English, The Savage City: Race, Murder and a Generation on the Edge ,
(informal) A difficult problem.
(countable, and, uncountable) A block of cast metal.
The mold in which a block of metal is cast.
(engineering) A device for cleaning or inspecting the inside of an oil or gas pipeline, or for separating different substances within the pipeline. Named for the pig-like squealing noise made by their progress.
(pejorative) a person who is obese to the extent of resembling a pig (the animal)
The general-purpose M60 machine gun, considered to be heavy and bulky.
(of swine) to give birth.
To greedily consume (especially food).
* 2009 , Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice , Vintage 2010, p. 349:
To huddle or lie together like pigs, in one bed.
(Scottish) earthenware, or an earthenware shard
An earthenware hot-water jar to warm a bed; a stone bed warmer
English nouns with irregular plurals
1000 English basic words
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A buffet.
* 1965', California Bureau of Food and Drug Inspections, ''Recommendations for Food Protection Devices: Cafeterias, Buffets, Chuck Wagons, '''Smorgasbords ,
* 2010', Pete Helland, ''Thanks to God for the '''Smorgasbord'' , Jeff Pepper, ''Daily Triumph ,
* 2011 , Darwin Porter, Danforth Prince, Roger Norum, Frommer's Scandinavia ,
(figuratively) A diverse collection of things.
* 2004 , Nicholas Ayo, Times of Grace: Spiritual Rhythms of the Year at the University of Notre Dame ,
* 2011 , Lorena Bathey, Happy Beginnings: How I Became My Own Fairy Godmother ,
* 2011 , Charles Hanly, Chapter Seven: Logic, Meaning and Truth in Psychoanalytic Research'', Jorge Canestri, Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber, Mary Target (editors), ''Early Development and its Disturbances ,
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smorgasbord; a buffet with many small dishes.pig
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(wikipedia pig) (Sus)Etymology 1
From (etyl) British slang sense "police officer" from at least 1785.2003', Victoria Fromkin, Robert Rodman, Nina M. Hyams, ''An Introduction to Language'',page 474— Similarly, the use of the word '''''pig''''' for “policeman” goes back at least as far as 1785, when a writer of the time called a Bow Street police officer a “China Street ' pig .”
Noun
(en noun)- The farmer kept a pen with two pigs that he fed from table scraps and field waste.
- Weanlings grow into feeder pigs', and feeder '''pigs''' grow into slaughter hogs. Ultimately the end use for virtually all ' pigs and hogs is to be slaughtered for the production of pork and other products.
- Some religions prohibit their adherents from eating pig .
- "Miss Chastene, could you fetch me out an extra plate of pig and biscuit[?] My partner can't do without your marvelous cooking."
- You gluttonous pig ! Now that you've eaten all the cupcakes, there will be none for the party!
- She considered him a pig as he invariably stared at her bosom when they talked.
- He was a pig and his apartment a pigpen; take-away containers and pizza boxes in a long, moldy stream lined his counter tops.
- The protester shouted, “Don't give in to the pigs !” as he was arrested.
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- “...Sounds too easy,” Marvin was saying. “What about the pigs ?”
- He meant police.
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- The bank robberies went on and each raid became more bloody, Meinhof encouraging her followers to “kill the pigs ” offering the slightest resistance, referring to policemen.
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- Backing 300 of the more aggressive protesters was a supporting cast of several thousand more who stared down the small line of police. Those in front resumed their taunts of “Pig', '''pig''', fascist '''pig''',” and “'''pigs''' eat shit, ' pigs eat shit.” The rest of the crowd, however, backed off and sat down on the grass when reinforcements arrived. Police did not retaliate for the name-calling, and within minutes the line of demonstrators broke apart and the incident was over without violence.113
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- But me, I joined the party to fight the pigs . That?s why I joined. Because my experience with the police was always negative.
- Hrm... this one's a real pig : I've been banging my head against the wall over it for hours!
- The conveyor carried the pigs from the smelter to the freight cars.
- After the ill-advised trade, the investor was stuck with worthless options for 10,000 tons of iron pig .
- The pig was cracked, and molten metal was oozing from the side.
- Unfortunately, the pig sent to clear the obstruction got lodged in a tight bend, adding to the problem.
- Unfortunately, the M60 is about twenty-four pounds and is very unbalanced. You try carrying the pig around the jungle and see how you feel.
Synonyms
* (mammal of genus Sus) hog, swine, see also * (someone who overeats or eats rapidly) see * (nasty or disgusting person) see * (police officer) see * seeHyponyms
* (mammal of genus Sus) boar, herd boar; sow, brood sow; piglet, piggyDerived terms
(terms derived from the noun "pig") * blind pig * bush pig * dish pig * eat like a pig * flying pig * guinea pig * happy as a pig in shit * if pigs had wings * in a pig's eye * pig bed * pigface * piggery * piggish * piggy * piggy bank * piggyback * pigheaded * pig in a blanket * pig in a poke * pig iron * pig it * pig Latin * pig lead * piglet * pig-out * pig out * pigpen * pigskin * pig-sticking * pigsty * pigtail * pigweed * potbellied pig * suckling pig * sweat like a pig * when pigs fly * whistle pig * year of the pigDescendants
* Abenaki: (l) (from "pigs") * Malecite-Passamaquoddy: (l) (from "pigs")Verb
- The black sow pigged at seven this morning.
- ''They were pigging on the free food at the bar.
- "Wow, Doc. That's heavy." Denis sat there pigging on the joint as usual.
Etymology 2
Origin unknown. See (m).Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* pig-man * pig-wife * pig-cart * pig-ass * pig-shopReferences
smorgasbord
English
Noun
(en noun)page 1,
- Cafeterias, buffets, chuck wagon service and smorgasbords are becoming increasingly popular food service methods.
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- It is a smorgasbord'. That means that after you pay a certain amount of money for your meal you can eat anything you want, together with as much as you want. I remember the first time my folks took me to a ' smorgasbord .
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- The fame of the smörgåsbord (smorgasbord') is justly deserved. Using a vast array of dishes—everything from Baltic herring to smoked reindeer—the ' smorgasbord (never served in the evening) can be eaten either as hors d'oeuvres or as a meal in itself.
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- Here is the smorgasbord of life, and our unfocused eyes are even bigger than our stomachs.
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- It appeared to me that this sexual smorgasbord was a way for these women to feel something again.
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- As such, and unlike philosophy which has toyed with this self-definition, it is not good enough for psychoanalysis to be a smorgasbord' of alternative ways of interpreting human nature. The ' smorgasbord of available therapies is already heavily laden with alternative psychotherapies without psychoanalysis adding further varieties of its own.