pig Latin

See also: Pig Latin

English

Alternative forms

• Pig Latin

Noun

pig Latin (uncountable)

1. A type of wordplay in which (English) words are altered by moving the leading phonetic of a word to the end and appending -ay, except when the word begins with a vowel, in which case "-way" is suffixed with no leading phonetic change. Template:examples-right

Synonyms

• backslang
• igpay atinlay

Translations

wordplay

• Dutch: pig Latin
• Finnish: kontinkieli (wordplay resembling pig Latin)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Greek: κορακίστηκα n pl (korakístika)
• Spanish: jeringoso (es) m (wordplay resembling pig Latin)

See also

• hog Latin
• Pig Latin on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• plaiting