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Answer for the clue "Little pig's snitch ", 8 letters:
squealer

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Squealer is a fictional pig from George Orwell 's Animal Farm . He is described in the book to be an effective and very convincing orator. In the book, he is described as merely a fat porker, but in the 1954 film , he is a pink pig, whereas in the 1999 ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Squealer \Squeal"er\ (-[~e]r), n. One who, or that which, squeals. (Zo["o]l.) The European swift. The harlequin duck. The American golden plover.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 An animal that, or a person who squeals; especially a pig 2 (context slang English) an informant 3 The European swift. 4 The harlequin duck. 5 The American golden plover.

Usage examples of squealer.

To have any influence with her, I must get out of the power of the police, I must overcome her belief that I am a stool and a squealer, and I must prove to her that I can make a success by going straight.

CHAPTER XIII When Maggie rode away forever from the house of the Duchess with Barney Palmer and her father, after the denunciation of Larry by the three of them as a stool and a squealer, she was the thrilled container of about as many diversified emotions as often bubble and swirl in a young girl at one and the same time.

Barney and Old Jimmie took you away to begin your new career--the same night that I ran away from those gunmen who thought I was a squealer, and from Casey and Gavegan.

So he framed it up so that I appeared to be a squealer, and started the gangmen after me.

Either you produce the squealer at once, or I turn on the light, Murphy.

But, if no obliging peeler Will arrest this midnight squealer, My own peculiar arm of might Must undertake the job to-night.

As Gerry explained in a quiet voice that had no business to issue from a bulk that could scarcely squeeze between the table and the wall, King was a squealer, an informer.