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To: Anthony@Pacific who wrote (1)3/16/1999 7:40:00 PM
From: StockDung  Read Replies (2) of 19
 
pig in a poke

First appeared 1562

: something offered in such a way as to obscure its real nature or worth <unwilling to buy a pig in a poke>

guinea pig (noun)

First appeared 1664

1 : a small stout-bodied short-eared tailless domesticated rodent (Cavia porcellus) often kept as a pet and widely used in biological research -- called also cavy

2 : a subject of research, experimentation, or testing
pig [1] (noun)

often attributive

[Middle English pigge]

First appeared 13th Century

1 : a young swine not yet sexually mature; broadly : a wild or domestic swine

2 a : PORK

b : the dressed carcass of a young swine weighing less than 130 pounds (60 kilograms)

c : PIGSKIN

3 a : one that resembles a pig <an unkempt ... person is a ~ --S. S. Hall>

b : an animal related to or resembling the pig

4 : a crude casting of metal (as iron)

5 slang : an immoral woman

6 slang : POLICE OFFICER -- usu. used disparagingly

-- pig*like (adjective)

pig out (verb intransitive)

First appeared 1978

slang : to eat greedily : GORGE

-- pig-out (noun)
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