| NOUN | person | squealer, informer, betrayer, rat, blabber | one who reveals confidential information in return for money |
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| animal | squealer, hog, pig, grunter, Sus scrofa | domestic swine |
| Meaning | One who reveals confidential information in return for money. | |
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| Synonyms | informer, betrayer, rat, blabber | |
| Narrower | fink, snitch, snitcher, stoolpigeon, stool pigeon, stoolie, sneak, sneaker, canary | someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police |
| nark, copper's nark | An informer or spy working for the police | |
| supergrass, grass | A police informer who implicates many people | |
| Broader | informant, source | A person who supplies information |
| Spanish | confidente, delator, informador | |
| Catalan | confident, delator, informador | |
| Verbs | squeal | confess to a punishable or reprehensible deed, usually under pressure |
| Meaning | domestic swine. | |
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| Synonyms | hog, pig, grunter, Sus scrofa | |
| Member of | Sus, genus Sus | type genus of the Suidae |
| Parts | pork, porc | meat from a domestic hog or pig |
| trotter | foot of a pig or sheep especially one used as food | |
| Narrower | porker | A pig fattened to provide meat |
| Broader | swine | stout-bodied short-legged omnivorous animals |
| Substances | lard | Soft white semisolid fat obtained by rendering the fatty tissue of the hog |
| Spanish | cerdo gruñón, cerdo, chancho, chon, cochi, cochín, cochino, cocho, cuchi, cuto, gocho, gorrino, guarro, marrano, porc, puerco, sus, Sus scrofa, tunco | |
| Catalan | bacó, marrà, porc | |
| Verbs | squeal | utter a high-pitched cry, characteristic of pigs |
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