Pig Vocabulary


Several different words in English identify different types of pigs:

  • Boar - An adult male pig

  • Sow - An adult female pig
  • Piglet/farrow - A juvenile pig
  • Shoat - A young pig between 100 to 180 lb (50 to 90 kg)
  • Gilt - An immature female pig
  • Barrow - A castrated male pig
  • Hog - a domestic or wild adult swine, especially one raised for slaughter because they fatten quickly; in its original sense it means a castrated boar.
  • Swine - Synonym for "pigs" (plural)