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pigflesh

pigflesh noun: the flesh of a pig.

Noun

pigflesh (uncountable)

  1. The flesh of a pig.
    • Pigflesh in New Guinea, 125 / —⁠— compared with human in Fiji, 45-461909, H[enry] Wilfrid Walker, “Index”, in Wanderings among South Sea Savages and in Borneo and the Philippines, London: Witherby & Co. […], →OCLC, page 251, column 2
    • Then the old men say, “You must not make a garden until we have eaten the pigs.” These are then served out and the boys are told, “You must not eat anything until you are really hungry; just bite the food and then put it aside,” and accordingly the lads bite the pigflesh and set it aside. The women...1915, E[rnest] W[illiam] P[earson] Chinnery, W[ilfred] N[orman] Beaver, “Notes on the Initiation Ceremonies of the Koko, Papua”, in The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain...

Examples of pigflesh in a sentence

  • The women cook some taro in pots, which the boys are permitted to eat, while the pigflesh is consumed by the old men.1915, E[rnest] W[illiam] P[earson] Chinnery, W[ilfred] N[orman] Beaver, “Notes on the Initiation Ceremonies of the Koko, Papua”, in The...
  • Frame-by-frame analysis revealed how the pigflesh charred while the greedy napalm burned, the pigs’ innards curling out to embrace the flame, providing fuel from within.2010, Scott Westerfeld, “Non-Disclosure Agreement”, in Tim Pratt, editor, Sympathy for the Devil, San Francisco, Calif.: Night Shade Books...
  • Yet it was all doomed to end here, at this awful table, with these horrible, still-quivering strips of fried pigflesh on the plate before him!2014, C. P. Boyko [Craig Boyko], “The Word ‘Genius’”, in Novelists: Stories, Windsor, Ont.: Biblioasis, →ISBN, page 8:

Synonyms of pigflesh

Origin of pigflesh

From pig + flesh. Compare German Low German Puggenfleesk, Puggenflees (“pork”, literally “pig's flesh”).

Questions about pigflesh

What does pigflesh mean?
Pigflesh means the flesh of a pig.
How do you use pigflesh in a sentence?
The women cook some taro in pots, which the boys are permitted to eat, while the pigflesh is consumed by the old men.
What part of speech is pigflesh?
Pigflesh is a noun.

Words near pigflesh in the dictionary

  1. pigfeeds
  2. pigfest
  3. pigfests
  4. pigfish
  5. pigfishes
  6. pigflesh
  7. pigfood
  8. pigfoot
  9. pigfoots
  10. Pigford
  11. Pigfords

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