different between pig vs cur

English

Wikispecies

Etymology 1

From Middle English pigge (“pig, pigling”) (originally a term for a young pig, with adult pigs being swine), apparently from Old English *picga (attested only in compounds, such as picgbr?ad (“mast, pig-fodder”)). Compare Middle Dutch pogge, puggen, pegsken (“pigling”).

A connection to early modern Dutch bigge (contemporary big (“piglet”)), West Frisian bigge (“pigling”), and similar terms in Middle Low German is sometimes proposed, "but the phonology is difficult". Some sources say the words are "almost certainly not" related, others consider a relation "probable, but not certain".

The slang sense of "police officer" is attested since at least 1785.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p??/
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

pig (plural pigs)

1. Any of several intelligent mammalian species of the genus Sus, having cloven hooves, bristles and a nose adapted for digging; especially the domesticated animal Sus scrofa.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pig

2. (specifically) A young swine, a piglet (contrasted with a hog, an adult swine).
   • 2005 April, Live Swine from Canada, Investigation No. 731-TA-1076 (Final), publication 3766, April 2005, U.S. International Trade Commission ?ISBN, page I-9:

     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.

3. (uncountable) The edible meat of such an animal; pork.
   • 2005, Ross Eddy Osborn, Thorns of a Tainted Rose ?ISBN, page 196:

     "Miss Chastene, could you fetch me out an extra plate of pig and biscuit. My partner can't do without your marvelous cooking."

4. A light pinkish-red colour, like that of a pig (also called pig pink).
   • 2019, Bee Smith, Queen Bee's Party

     So far on the streets there's been a lot of metallic pink (the kind of pink as in the shade of pig you get, and this is exactly the shade of the diary I've been writing in) […]

5. (derogatory, slang) Someone who overeats or eats rapidly and noisily.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:glutton

6. (derogatory, slang) A lecherous or sexist man.

7. (derogatory, slang) A dirty or slovenly person.

8. (derogatory) A very obese person.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:fat person

10. (now chiefly US, Britain, Australia, derogatory, slang) A police officer. [From ante 1785.]

    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:police officer

    • 1989, Dan Simmons, Carrion Comfort, page 359,

      “...Sounds too easy,” Marvin was saying. “What about the pigs?”

      He meant police.

    • 1990, Jay Robert Nash, Encyclopedia of World Crime: Volume 1: A-C, page 198,

      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.

    • 2008, Frank Kusch, Battleground Chicago: The Police and the 1968 Democratic National Convention, page 63,

      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

    • 2011, T. J. English, The Savage City: Race, Murder and a Generation on the Edge, unnumbered page,

      But me, I joined the party to fight the pigs. That?s why I joined. Because my experience with the police was always negative.
11. (informal) A difficult problem.

12. (countable and uncountable) A block of cast metal.

13. The mold in which a block of metal is cast.

14. (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.

15. (US, military, slang) The general-purpose M60 machine gun, considered to be heavy and bulky.

16. (uncountable) A simple dice game in which players roll the dice as many times as they like, either accumulating a greater score or losing previous points gained.

Hyponyms

• (mammal of genus Sus): boar, herd boar; sow, brood sow; piglet, piggy

Derived terms

Descendants

• Torres Strait Creole: pig
• ? Abenaki: piks (from "pigs")
• ? Malecite-Passamaquoddy: piks (from "pigs")

Translations

Verb

pig (third-person singular simple present pigs, present participle pigging, simple past and past participle pigged)

1. (of swine) to give birth.

2. (intransitive) To greedily consume (especially food).
   • 2009, Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice, Vintage 2010, page 349:

     "Wow, Doc. That's heavy." Denis sat there pigging on the joint as usual.

3. (intransitive) To huddle or lie together like pigs, in one bed.
4. (intransitive) To live together in a crowded filthy manner.
5. (transitive, engineering) To clean (a pipeline) using a pig (the device).

Etymology 2

Origin unknown. See piggin.

Noun

pig (plural pigs)

1. (Scotland) earthenware, or an earthenware shard
2. An earthenware hot-water jar to warm a bed; a stone bed warmer

Derived terms

References

Anagrams

• GIP, GPI, gip

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse pík, from Proto-Germanic *p?kaz, *pikkaz, cognate with English pike. Doublet of pik.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pi?/, [?p?i??]
• Homophone: pik

Noun

pig c (singular definite piggen, plural indefinite pigge)

1. spike
2. barb
3. spine, quill (needle-like structure)
4. prickle (a small, sharp pointed object, such as a thorn)

Inflection

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English pigge, pygge, from Old English *picga (“pig; pigling”), see English pig.

Sense of "vessel; jar" is from Middle English pygg, perhaps an extension of the above.

Noun

pig (plural pigs)

1. pig
2. pot, jar, earthenware

Derived terms

Torres Strait Creole

Etymology

From English pig.

Noun

pig

1. pig

   Synonym: pwaka

Welsh

Etymology

Possibly from Middle English pyke (“pike, sharp point”). Cognate with Breton beg.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pi??/

Noun

pig f (plural pigau)

1. beak, bill
2. point, spike
3. spout

Derived terms

• pigo (“to prick, to peck, to sting”)

Mutation

Further reading

R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “pig”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

English

Etymology

From Middle English kur, curre, of Middle Low German [Term?] or North Germanic origin. Compare Middle Dutch corre (“house dog; watch-dog”), dialectal Swedish kurre (“a dog”). Compare also Old Norse kurra (“to growl; grumble”), Middle Low German korren (“to growl”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): [k??]
• (US) IPA^(key): [k?]
• Rhymes: -??(r)

Homophone: Kerr

Noun

cur (plural curs)

1. (dated or humorous) A contemptible or inferior dog.
   • c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Again?t venemous tongues enpoy?oned with ?claunder and fal?e detractions &c.:

     A fals double tunge is more fiers and fell
     Then Cerberus the cur couching in the kenel of hel;
     Wherof hereafter, I thinke for to write,
     Of fals double tunges in the di?pite.

   • 1613, Shakespeare, The Famous History of the Life of King Henry VIII, Act 2, scene 4

     you have many enemies, that know not why they are so, but, like to village-curs, bark when their fellows do.

   • 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 25

     "You have no more spirit than a mongrel cur. You lie down on the ground and ask people to trample on you."

2. (dated or humorous) A detestable person.
   • 1613, Shakespeare, The Famous History of the Life of King Henry VIII, Act 1, scene 1

     This butcher's cur is venom-mouth'd, and I have not the power to muzzle him.

Derived terms

• curdog

Translations

See also

• bitsa, bitser
• mongrel
• mutt

Anagrams

• CRU, Cru, RUC, cru, ruc

Aromanian

Etymology 1

From Latin culus. Compare Romanian cur.

Alternative forms

• curu

Noun

cur

1. (slang, referring to the anus) ass

Etymology 2

From Latin curr?. Compare Romanian cure, cur (modern curge, curg).

Alternative forms

• curu

Verb

cur

1. I run.
2. I flow.

Derived terms

• curari / curare

Etymology 3

From Latin c?r?. Compare archaic/regional Romanian cura, cur.

Alternative forms

• curu

Verb

cur (past participle curatã)

1. I clean.

Related terms

• curari / curare
• curat

Dalmatian

Etymology 1

From Latin c?rus.

Alternative forms

• cuor, kuor

Adjective

cur m (feminine cuora)

1. dear, beloved

Etymology 2

From Latin cor. Compare Italian cuore, French coeur, Old Portuguese cor, Old Spanish cuer.

Noun

cur

1. heart

Irish

Alternative forms

• cuir

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [k???]

Noun

cur m (genitive singular as substantive cuir, genitive as verbal noun curtha)

1. verbal noun of cuir
2. sowing, planting; tillage
3. burial
4. setting, laying
5. course; round
6. (of implements) set

Declension

Substantive

Verbal noun

Mutation

References

• "cur" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Entries containing “cur” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “cur” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Latin

Alternative forms

• q?r, qu?r, qu?r (older spelling)
• quur, cor (rare)

Etymology

From Old Latin qu?r, qu?r, from Proto-Italic *k??r, from Proto-Indo-European *k??r, having undergone pre-resonant and monosyllabic lengthening from *k?or (“where”), from *k?os (“interrogative determiner”) +? *-r (“adverbial suffix”). For similar lengthening effect, compare to *b??r. For other Indo-European cognates, compare:

• Sanskrit ????? (kárhi, “when”), Proto-Germanic *hwar (“where”) < *k?or
• Old English hw?r (“where”), Old High German hw?r (“where”) < *k??r
• Albanian kur (“when”), Lithuanian kur? (“where, whither”), Armenian ??? (ur, “where”) < *k?ur

See also quirquir (“wherever(?)”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ku?r/, [ku?r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kur/, [kur]

Adverb

c?r (not comparable)

1. why, for what reason, wherefore, to what purpose, from what motive
   • 19 BC, Vergilius, Aeneis; Book XI, from line 424

     Cur ante tubam tremor occupat artus?

     Why before the trumpet (of war), fear seizes your limbs?

Derived terms

• c?r n?n

References

• cur in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cur in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• cur in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• “c?r” on page 519/1-2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)

Manx

Etymology

A highly suppletive verb with forms derived from two already suppletive verbs.

• The imperative and verbal noun forms are from Old Irish cuirid, from older cor, the verbal noun of fo·ceird. The verbal noun is etymologically unrelated to fo·ceird itself however, only arising in its paradigm due to suppletion.
• All other forms of the verb are from Old Irish do·beir, itself also a suppletive verb. See also Scottish Gaelic thoir and Irish tabhair.

Verb

cur (verbal noun cur, coyrt)

1. put

2. give

Conjugation

Derived terms

• cur ayns kishtey (“box, crate”, verb)

Mutation

References

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 cuirid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Megleno-Romanian

Etymology

From Latin culus.

Noun

cur

1. (slang) asshole (anus)

Middle English

Noun

cur

1. Alternative form of curre

Middle Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish caur, from Proto-Celtic *karuts.

Noun

cur m (genitive curad, nominative plural curaid)

1. hero, warrior
   • c. 1000, The Tale of Mac Da Thó's Pig, section 15, published in Irische Teste, vol. 1 (1880), edited by Ernst Windisch:

Descendants

• Irish: curadh

Derived terms

• curadmír (“warrior’s portion”)

Mutation

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “cur”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kur/

Etymology 1

From Latin culus, from Proto-Indo-European *kuH-l-, zero-grade without s-mobile form of *(s)kewH- (“to cover”). Compare Italian culo, French cul.

Noun

cur n (plural cururi)

1. (slang, vulgar, referring to the anus) asshole

   Synonyms: anus, dos, fund, popou, ?ezut

Declension

Derived terms

• curist

Etymology 2

Verb

cur

1. first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of cura (to clean)

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

cur m (genitive singular cuir, no plural)

1. verbal noun of cuir
2. placing, setting, sending, sowing
3. laying, pouring
4. falling of snow, raining
5. throwing

Derived terms

• ath-chur (“transplant”)
• eadar-chur (“interjection, interruption”)

Mutation

References

• “cur” in Edward Dwelly, Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic–English Dictionary, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, 1911, ?ISBN.