| Bartholomew boar-pig | pig sold at the annual London fair held on St Bartholomew's day |
| brawn | fattened boar, stuffed pig [ready for eating] |
| Calydon | region of ancient Aetolia, Greece, where the hunt for the Calydonian boar took place |
| draff | pig-swill, refuse, garbage |
| farrow | [of pigs] litter, young, piglet |
| frank | pig-sty |
| hedge-pig | hedgehog |
| Meleager | [pron: melee'ager] son of Althaea, his life-span determined by an unburnt magic log; he murdered his uncles in a quarrel over the killing of a boar ravaging the fields in Calydon; in her rage Althaea burnt Meleager’s log on a fire, and he died |
| swine | wild boar |
| swine-drunk | drunk as a pig, excessively drunk |
| swinish | coarse, gross; or: comparing [one] to pigs |
| tithe-pig | pig given as part of a tithe |
| wheak | sound of a pig being killed |