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oink

/ɔɪŋk/

oink interjection: representing the grunting sound made by a pig.

Interjection

  1. Representing the grunting sound made by a pig.
  2. Drawing attention to male chauvinism (from the term male chauvinist pig).
    • Mom swallowed a spoonful of pudding and looked Daddy straight in the eye. "Oink, oink," she said, to let him know he was being a male chauvinist pig.1982, Sandy Asher, Just like Jenny
    • "The tub is too small!" "Then, I'll go first and you'll have to wait!" "Chauvinist pig!" "Oink, oink!"2003, Robert N. Mansfield, Randy Maas, The Assassin: Attack on America

Noun

oink (plural oinks)

  1. The sound made by a pig, or an imitation thereof.
    • The protesters replied to the police officers' demands with a chorus of oinks.

Verb

oink (third-person singular simple present oinks, present participle oinking, simple past and past participle oinked)

  1. (intransitive) Of a pig or in imitation thereof, to make its characteristic sound.
    • The hogs oinked happily in their pen as the farmer poured slop in their feeding trough.

oink meaning in Urdu, Indonesian, Thai and Vietnamese

oink in Urdu

سور کی آواز

oink in Indonesian

Representing the sound made by a pig
ngok, ngok ngok

oink in Thai

Representing the sound made by a pig
อู๊ด úut

oink in Vietnamese

Representing the sound made by a pig
ủn ỉn, ụt ịt
to oink
ủn ỉn

Synonyms of oink

Forms of oink

Noun
pluraloinks
Verb
third-person singular presentoinks
present participleoinking
past participleoinked
pastoinked

Origin of oink

Imitative of the sound.

Words formed from oink

Questions about oink

What does oink mean?
Oink means representing the grunting sound made by a pig.
What is oink in Urdu?
Oink in Urdu is سور کی آواز. See Oink meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is oink?
Oink can be an interjection, a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce oink?
Oink is pronounced /ɔɪŋk/.

Words near oink in the dictionary

  1. oilyness
  2. OIML
  3. Oina
  4. Oinam
  5. Oinamcha
  6. oink
  7. oink out
  8. oinked
  9. oinker
  10. oinkers
  11. oinking

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: oink (page history and authors); oink (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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