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单词 pig bucket
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pig bucketn.

Brit. /ˈpɪɡ ˌbʌkᵻt/, U.S. /ˈpɪɡ ˌbəkət/, New Zealand English /ˈpɪɡ ˌbʌkət/
Forms:

α. 1800s pigs' bucket.

β. 1900s– pig's bucket.

γ. 1900s– pig bucket.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: pig n.1, bucket n.1
Etymology: In α form < the genitive plural of pig n.1 + bucket n.1; in β form < the genitive of pig n.1 + bucket n.1; in γ form < pig n.1 + bucket n.1
Originally and chiefly New Zealand.
A receptacle in which to collect organic kitchen waste to be used as pig fodder. Cf. pig bin n. at pig n.1 Compounds 2a.
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1851 W. Kennaway & L. T. Kennaway Biscuit & Butter (1973) 58 [The new bag of biscuits] have not the disagreeable fusty taste the old dusty scraps (which are now swimming in the pigs' bucket) used to have.
1926 E. Glen Uncles Three at Kamahi 27 The bottom of the pig-bucket.
1973 J. Seymour & S. Seymour Self-sufficiency vi. 80 Always keep a pig bucket in the scullery.
2002 Observer (Nexis) 10 Nov. (Food Monthly Suppl.) 74 Who ‘accidentally’ puts leftovers of the ratatouille that his partner cooked for lunch into the pig bucket.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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