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piggery

noun

Etymology

From pig + -ery.

  1. derived from *puk✻
  2. inherited from *picga✻
  3. inherited from pigge — “pig, piglet”
  4. suffixed as piggery — “pig + ery”

Definitions

  1. A place, such as a farm, where pigs are kept or raised.

    • Two heavy pails of swill—meat scraps floating in custard—from the school kitchens to be carried with a friend, Hans Solish, all the way to the piggery.

  2. Piggish behaviour.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA