piglet
Americannoun
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piglets
plural
noun
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Origin of piglet
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Today, that piglet is Tucker—a 200-pound porker who has outgrown the family bathroom, shredded a couch and required the installation of heavy-duty horse panels to keep him from escaping the yard of his Arizona home.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 3, 2026
Mummy and Daddy Pig will introduce the idea of the pending piglet in the Season 10 episode airing March 31.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2025
The boar, named Rillette, was found in 2023 as a piglet by Elodie Cappé on her horse-breeding smallholding in Chaource, central France, after apparently been abandoned by its mother.
From BBC ● Jan. 17, 2025
The phrase “Balls to the Walz” was everywhere, as were pictures of the Minnesota governor nestling a piglet in his arms with a beaming smile.
From Slate ● Aug. 8, 2024
Behind him, Kandar cradled its piglet like a child might hold a doll.
From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman
Beguiled by photos of teensy piglets, she chose the runt of the litter—a tiny, shivering nugget for $350.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 3, 2026
Also known as water bears and moss piglets, tardigrades sport blobby physiques, lumbering gaits and perfectly circular mouths stuck in the middle of their otherwise-featureless faces.
From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2024
In a new study, published in Virology, a multidisciplinary team of researchers have studied newborn piglets to better understand the progression of influenza infections.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 18, 2024
About 80 sows and 1,000 piglets were in a farrowing house on the farm.
From BBC ● Mar. 9, 2024
She got to her feet to fight better and remembered that old-fashioned women gave birth in their pigsties to fool the jealous, pain-dealing gods, who do not snatch piglets.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
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