piggery

noun — 2 senses

piggery

noun

Etymology From pig + -ery.

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.2022, Ian McEwan, Lessons, page 99:
2

Piggish behaviour.

Related terms
pig farm

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