oink

Imitative of the sound.

• IPA^(key): /ɔɪŋk/

oink

1. Representing the grunting sound made by a pig.
2. Drawing attention to male chauvinism (from the term male chauvinist pig).
   • 1982, Sandy Asher, Just like Jenny:

     Mom swallowed a spoonful of pudding and looked Daddy straight in the eye. "Oink, oink," she said, to let him know he was being a male chauvinist pig.

   • 2003, Robert N. Mansfield, Randy Maas, The Assassin: Attack on America:

     "The tub is too small!" "Then, I'll go first and you'll have to wait!" "Chauvinist pig!" "Oink, oink!"

   • 2005, Alinka Zyrmont, Forbidden Passion:

     You are such a male chauvinist oink, oink. You think that you are the only one who can drive a car or fly an airplane.

oink (plural oinks)

1. The sound made by a pig, or an imitation thereof.

   The protesters replied to the police officers' demands with a chorus of oinks.

• grunt

oink (third-person singular simple present oinks, present participle oinking, simple past and past participle oinked)

1. (intransitive) Of a pig or in imitation thereof, to make its characteristic sound.

   The hogs oinked happily in their pen as the farmer poured slop in their feeding trough.

• grunt

• grunt
• squeal

• ikon, kino