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bush pig

See also: bushpig

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A southern bush pig (Potamochoerus larvatus koirpotamu) at the San Diego Zoo, California

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bush pig (plural bush pigs)

  1. An African pig of the genus Potamochoerus; Potamochoerus porcus or Potamochoerus larvatus.
    Synonym: boschvark
    • 1969, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology‎[1], volume 63, page 19:
      The commonest game animals are vervet and colobus monkey, baboon, common duiker, bush-pig and grysbok.
    • 2006, Armin Prinz, editor, Hunting Food and Drinking Wine: Proceedings of the conference in Poysdorf, 2003‎[2], page 208:
      There are two types of bohonda net hunts. One type is directed by a nkangohonda (bush pig charmer), a sorcerer-hunter who handles bush pigs as easily as if they were dogs, gathering herds of them about him and even holding them by their necks.
    • 2011, Britannica Educational Publishing, Grazers‎[3], page 175:
      The bush pig (Potamochoerus porcus) is an African member of the pig family, Suidae, resembling a boar but with long body hair and tassels of hair on its ears.
  2. (Australia) A feral pig living in the bush.
  3. (Australia, slang, derogatory) A very ugly woman.
    • 1999 August 31, Phillip Germond, “Looking for your FAQ sheet”, in alt.showbiz.gossip‎[4] (Usenet):
      I find Clinton to be the greatest president because of all unintended humor he's supplied and for his parade of bush pigs like Lewinsky, Trip and Paula Jones.
    • 2005 January 11, Dan, “Miss Summarnats”, in aus.cars‎[5] (Usenet):
      Funny as that never really happens to me when I was drinking at a pub or a club and I see a bush pig no matter how drunk I am I still see a bush pig.
    • 2005 July 9, Sanctify, “The Christie comparison”, in alt.tv.big-brother.australia‎[6] (Usenet):
      She's a shocker - tits and body aside, she looks like a bush pig, acts like a bush pig, speaks like a bush pig and thus *is* a bush pig. She'd win the ugliest girl football pull anyday.[sic]

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