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the sound pigs make in English but a stranger in every other language
means The conventional English imitation of the grunting noise a pig makes, often doubled as 'oink oink.'
from A 20th-century English onomatopoeia — an attempt to spell the pig's grunt as the ear hears it. Like all animal-noise words, it's less a record of fact than a cultural agreement: where English settled on 'oink,' German hears 'grunz,' Japanese 'buu,' and French 'groin groin,' each language drawing the same sound through its own throat.
- japanese pig
- says buu, not oink
- in print
- first recorded as pig-noise around 1942
- french version
- pigs there say groin groin
- smarter than dogs
- the animal behind it outthinks your puppy
pigs of pig beach — swimming pigs in the bahamas, over 20 feral pigs living on the island
peppa pig — british children's character whose oink is iconic in the show since 2004
babe — 1995 film pig who learns to herd sheep and famously oinks throughout