Do you know your “piggies”?

With the onset of the coming piggy year, my colleagues and I were trying to figure out the different types of “piggies” during lunch, and were slightly amused at some of the definitions:

















Pig = domestic swine
Swine = stout-bodied short-legged omnivorous animal
Hog = castrated male pig
Boar = uncastrated male pig
Sow = adult female pig
Piglet = young pig
Piggy = young pig
Shoat = young pig

And have also seen it defined as Sus scrofa, Grunter, and Squealer. I guess the context in which it may be used to refer to others may not be of the complimentary kind. Can get more details from here. The next time you decide to call a person a pig, make sure you hurl your verbal repartee correctly and don’t simply malign the poor pig.

Now then, do you know your piggies? :P