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pig-herd|ˈpɪghɜːd|
Also 7 ? piggard.
[f. pig n.1 + herd n.2 The form piggard prob. belongs here, but may be:—pigward.]
A keeper of a herd of pigs: cf. hogherd, swineherd.
1591Percivall Sp. Dict., Porquero, a pigheard. a1697Aubrey Brief Lives (1898) II. 304 He sent for all his servants, even the piggard-boy, to come and heare his palinode. 1820Shelley Œdipus Tyr. ii. i. 136 Squabbling makes pig⁓herds hungry, and they dine On bacon, and whip sucking⁓pigs the more. 1886W. J. Tucker E. Europe 213 Magyar..cattle-drivers, Bulgarian pig-herds,..Wallachian shepherds. |