The four-legged ungulates are considered so messy and stinky that they're synonymous with slovenliness: Eat too much and you're pigging out.

WSJ: New Yorkers boldly flout law to keep pigs

She and her husband let David go because they had no better options for his summers and expected the worst of him: delinquency, slovenliness, eventual arrest.

NEWYORKER: Or Else