Pig Club Vocabulary
Vocabulary list
Boar
A male hog
Gilt
A female hog that has not given birth
Hog
A male pig
Pig
A cloven-hoofed mammal having a long, mobile snout
Sow
An adult female hog
Piglet
A baby pig
Hoof
A pig’s foot
Runt
The smallest pig in the litter
Pen
An enclosure to keep a pig in
Farrow
To give birth to pigs
Herd
A group of hogs
Litter
A group of pigs a sow gives birth to at one time
Shoat
A pig that has been weaned (taken off its mother’s milk)
Swine
Another word for hog
Lard
Shortening made from the fat of pigs
Bristles
Hog hair
Squeal
The loud noise a pig makes
Snout
The nose of a pig