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hog / pig / swine / CL: , 頭|头
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boar
piglet
(Tw) Matsusaka pork – premium cut of pork, usually from the neck or jowl, noted for its fine marbling and tenderness, named by analogy with Japan's famous Matsusaka beef, not by origin
pig offal
pork
suckling pig
lit. people fear getting famous like pigs fear fattening up (for the slaughter) / fig. fame has its price
piggery
pork ribs / pork chop
pig's tail (meat)
lit. people fear getting famous like pigs fear fattening up (for the slaughter) / fig. fame has its price
swine influenza virus (SIV)
porcupine
(saying) a boneheaded teammate can do you more harm than the most formidable opponent
pig shed
stupid swine / idiot
pig head / (coll.) fool / jerk
pork fillet
lard
piglet / (old) exploited Chinese laborer tricked into working abroad
Zhu Bajie, character in Journey to the West 西遊記|西游记, with pig-like characteristics and armed with a muckrake / Pigsy in Arthur Waley's translation
to kill the pigs and slaughter the sheep (idiom)
wild boar (Sus scrofa) / CL: 頭|头
stir-fried pork with basil; pork phat kaphrao
guinea pig
tropical pitcher plant (i.e. genus Nepenthes)
lit. time is a butcher's knife / fig. time marches on, relentless and unforgiving / nothing gold can stay
pigsty; pigpen
pig trotters
(derog.) white person; white pig
pig's blood cake, popular as a snack in Taiwan, made from glutinous rice and pig's blood, typically coated in peanut powder and coriander and served with dipping sauces
aardvark
cylindrical bamboo or wire frame used to constrain a pig during transport
truffle hog
pigsty (lit. and fig.)
pork tripe
Year 12, year of the Boar (e.g. 2007)
boar taint, the taste or odor of sweat or urine in pork from uncastrated pigs
warthog
swineherd
(slang) incompetent teammate, coworker etc
(economics) (derog.) PIGS (Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain) / PIIGS (Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Spain)
see 刈包
pork-leg rice – either a Guangdong (Chaozhou-Shantou) specialty of braised pork leg over rice or the Thai-Chinese dish "khao kha mu"
pig butchering scam (where the scammer builds trust with the victim over time, "fattening them up," before ultimately "slaughtering" them by taking their money); (esp.) romance scam
to drown sb in a wicker basket, a form of 沉潭
to play the wolf in sheep's clothing; to disguise oneself as sth harmless in order to lull one's target into letting their guard down
pork steak
Year of the Boar (e.g. 2007)
feeder pig
Chinese river dolphin, Lipotes vexillifer
lit. just because Zhang the butcher dies, doesn't mean we'll have to eat pork mixed with bristles (idiom) / fig. nobody is indispensable
lit. a dead pig doesn't fear scalding water (saying) / fig. a person who has nothing more to lose will go to any lengths, regardless of the consequences
worse than a dog or pig / lower than low
a French-style bread, similar to a small baguette, commonly seen in Hong Kong and Macao
Bay of Pigs (Cuba)
live pig; pig on the hoof
pigsty (lit. and fig.)
pork bouillon powder / (neologism) (slang) a person who, like a pig, is fat and ugly and given to histrionics
swine fever
poria mushroom (Polyporus umbellatus)
live pig
Chinese alligator (Alligator sinensis)
weeds or grass used to feed pigs
swine influenza / swine flu / influenza A (H1N1)
pig-dog (intended as insult) / Schweinhund
boar taint, the taste or odor of sweat or urine in pork from uncastrated pigs
(slang) craving to eat; urge to pig out
(Tw) (neologism) pork containing ractopamine 萊克多巴胺|莱克多巴胺
Zhu Bajie 豬八戒|猪八戒 or Zhu Wuneng, Pigsy or Pig (in Journey to the West)
pig streptococcus / streptococcus suis
swine vesicular disease (SVD)
pigsty
pervert (esp. one who gropes women in public)
(coll.) feeder pig
dissolute companions / disreputable comrades
streptococcus suis (swine-borne disease)
Berkshire pig / Berkshire swine
Chinese truffle
variant of 仔豬|仔猪


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