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▪ I. piggery1|ˈpɪgərɪ|
[f. pig n.1 + -ery.]
1. A place where pigs are kept; a pig-breeding establishment; a pigsty. Also fig.
1781R. F. Greville Diary 9 Aug. (1930) 20 Returned to The Grove after viewing The Farm & well kept Piggery. 1799Times 1 June 4/3 Stabling for 3 horses, chaise-house, piggery, and out-buildings. 1804–6Syd. Smith Mor. Philos. (1850) 195 Go to the Duke of Bedford's piggery at Woburn. 1841–54J. L. Stephens Centr. Amer. 110 The interior was a perfect piggery full of fleas and children. 1867J. Hatton Tallants of B. iii, There were model cow-houses, cattle-sheds, piggeries. 1868Ruskin Time & Tide (1872) 193 Here we are in a piggery, mainly by our own fault, hungry enough, and for ourselves, anything but respectable. 1936Times Lit. Suppl. 29 Feb. 182/3 She contrasts the spoilt young things in luxurious homes with the free young things in Chelsea piggeries. 1971Farmers Weekly (Extra) 19 Mar. 5/1 For cleaning and sterilising piggeries, equipment, troughs and machinery, etc. 1972T. A. Bulman Kamloops Cattlemen xiv. 80 One part of the Grande Prairie layout was designated as the piggery.
2. Piggish condition; piggishness.
1867Macgregor Voy. Alone ii. (1868) 65 Is the positive piggery of the lowest stratum of our fellows part of the price we pay for glorious freedom? 1885Sat. Rev. 21 Feb. 238/1 They prefer piggery to decency. 1972Daily Tel. 10 Nov. 15/2 The pin-up is just male chauvinist piggery. 1977H. Greene FSO-1 i. 4 A black citadel of male-chauvinist piggery.
3. Pigs collectively.
1888Harper's Mag. Mar. 633 That sackful of rebellious piggery heaving and struggling.
▪ II. ˈpiggery2 Sc.
[f. pig n.2 + -ery.]
A place where pots and vessels of earthenware are made or sold; a pottery; a crockery-shop; also, earthenware, crockery.
1825in Jamieson. |