GR translation: four haze-gray piglets

[Mike Jing]

V597.3-10   Presently, out of breath, they arrive at the pier where the
Badass and its division, four haze-gray piglets, are tied up, to find the
runcible spoon fight just under way at the center of a weaving, cheering
crowd of civilian and military drunks. Stringy Avery Purfle, sideburns
slick as seal’s fur in the pallid light, Adam’s apple working in and out at
a nervous four or five cycles a minute, shuffles around his opponent, the
serene and oxlike St. John Bladdery, both with runcible spoons in the
on-guard position, filed edges bright.

Why are they called "piglets"?  Is it just because they are much smaller
than the Badass?
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