long pig

American  

noun

1. (among the Maori and Polynesian peoples) human flesh as food for cannibals.

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long pig British  

noun

1. obsolete human flesh eaten by cannibals

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Etymology

Origin of long pig

First recorded in 1850–55

Example Sentences

Scientists also still have much to learn about how long pig organs survive and how best to genetically alter them, cautioned Dr. Robert Montgomery of NYU Langone Health, who led that center’s kidney experiments in the fall.

From Seattle Times

"Upon the long pig that speaks," she whispered.

From Project Gutenberg

So do not let me be “rowpit” till you get some certainty we have gone to Davie Jones in a squall, or graced the feast of some barbarian in the character of Long Pig.

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Though cannibals, they do not kill for the sake of eating 'long pig,' like the cannibals of the South Seas.

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Frocks, aprons, jacket, all were soaked, shoes and stockings were drenched, the long pig tails of the girls streamed large drops, as if they had been little rusty-colored water-pipes.

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