2007-01-08 10:06:17 · 5 answers · asked by gigi 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
Probably a pig from an English country-side barn unless you mean something mean in your mind.
2007-01-08 10:09:39 · answer #1 · answered by Ottawan-Canada 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The English Pig is an account of pigs and pig-keeping from the sixteenth century to modern times, concentrating on the domestic, cottage pig, rather than commercial farming. In Victorian England the pig was an integral part of village life: both visible and essential. Living in close proximity to its owners, fed on scraps and the subject of perennial interest, the pig when dead provided the means to repay social and monetary debts as well as excellent meat.While the words associated with the pig, such as 'hoggish', 'swine' and 'pigsty', and phrases like 'greedy as a pig', associate the pig with greed and dirt.
Orginally originated;
The Norman Invasion of Britain forced French on top, French became the
educated language and English the farmer's language, hence English pig for the animal, French pork for the food.
2007-01-08 18:09:03 · answer #2 · answered by Todd 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It is an insult given to King Arthur by the French soldiers in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. It was also used, I think, in the Nob and Nobility episode of Blackadder III, in the exchange between the Comte de Frou Frou and the French revolutionary.
2007-01-08 20:55:28 · answer #3 · answered by tentofield 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is a very fine Pig indeed.
2007-01-08 18:13:41 · answer #4 · answered by Mighty C 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It means the person is of English nationality and they act like a scoundrel.
2007-01-08 18:09:28 · answer #5 · answered by marklemoore 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋