- a female pig compare boar, hogTopics Animalsc2Word OriginOld English sugu; related to Dutch zeug, German Sau, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin sus and Greek hus ‘pig’.
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See sow in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary(you can't) make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear
- (you won't) succeed in making something good out of material that does not seem very good at allTopics Successc2
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