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