no prize pig

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English

Noun

no prize pig

  1. (litotes) Said of a person who is decidedly unattractive or undesirable.
    • 2011, Richard Zelade, Lone Star Travel Guide to Central Texas, page 274:
      Jeptha Billingsley, who was no prize pig himself (he had been arrested for horse theft and assault with intent to murder), was to be taught a lesson, and the vigilantes made him cut down the McLemores.
    • 2012, R. Evans Pansing, Fact and Fiction: Fiction and Reality, page 29:
      After all Charlotte Arlene Hoggstett was no prize pig herself.

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