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swinery|ˈswaɪnərɪ|
[f. swine n. + -ery; cf. piggery.]
1. A place where swine are kept; a piggery. Also fig.
1778W. H. Marshall Minutes Agric., Digest 22 The Swinery..is very commodious. 1792Wolcot (P. Pindar) More Money Ode ii. 12 Thus are parterres of Richmond and of Kew Dug up for bull and cow, and ram and ewe, And Windsor Park so glorious, made a swinery. 1895Meredith Amazing Marr. I. viii. 89 There is to be an extra bedroom secured at her hotel. That swinery of a place she insists on visiting is usually crammed. 1895Arena (Boston) Aug. 434 His neighbor keeps a swinery in his garden.
2. A swinish condition; swine collectively.
1849Carlyle Irish Journey 28 July (1882) 201 Human swinery has here reached its acme, happily. 1888Lees & Clutterbuck B.C. 1887 xxxiv. (1892) 376 A squealing, grunting, parti-coloured streak of swinery went scuttering past. |