grumphie
A Scottish dialectal and affectionate term for a pig or sow, likely deriving from the grunting sound pigs make.
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A Scottish dialectal and affectionate term for a pig or sow, likely deriving from the grunting sound pigs make. It has a folksy, rural character typical of Scots vocabulary for farm animals. The word appears in Robert Burns's poetry and other Scottish vernacular literature, giving it a degree of literary cachet.
The grumphie had broken through the fence again and was rooting around in the vegetable garden.
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(Scotland) A sow .
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