zeug

From Middle Dutch soge, suege, from Old Dutch *soga, from Proto-West Germanic *sugu. The regular form in Middle Dutch was soge with a back vowel, with fronted suege occurring only in the western dialects. The original form is still found dialectally as zoog.

• IPA^(key): /zøːx/

• zeug

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• Hyphenation: zeug
• Rhymes: -øːx

zeug f (plural zeugen, diminutive zeugje n)

1. sow (female pig)

   Synonyms: keu, mot

2. (figuratively, derogatory) bitch, cow, blatant term of abuse for a 'beastly' human female

• varken, zwijn

• beer (“boar, male pig”)
• big (“piglet, young pig”)

• Afrikaans: sog