piggeryn.1
/ˈpɪɡ(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈpɪɡ(ə)ri/ 1. A place where pigs are kept or bred; a pigsty or pig farm; (figurative) an extremely dirty or untidy house or room.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping of pigs > [noun] > piggery
swinery1740
piggery1780
1780 A. Young Tour Ireland 307 He keeps 30 pigs, which stock he feeds on potatoes, and has built a piggery for them.
1799 Times 1 June 4/3 Stabling for 3 horses, chaise-house, piggery, and out-buildings.
a1845 S. Smith Elem. Sketches Moral Philos. (1850) xiv. 195 Go to the Duke of Bedford's piggery at Woburn.
1867 J. Hatton Tallants iii There were model cow-houses, cattle-sheds, piggeries.
1936 Times Lit. Suppl. 29 Feb. 182/3 She contrasts the spoilt young things in luxurious homes with the free young things in Chelsea piggeries.
2002 Daily Record (Nexis) 5 Aug. 6 The SSPCA and government vets raided the West Lothian piggery in April.
2. Pigs collectively.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > pig > [noun] > collectively
swineOE
porkery1439
swinehood1797
piggery1851
hoggery1856
1851 Tait's Edinb. Mag. May 316/2 It is time the politician should know that universal suffrage and a universality of piggery are nearer connected than is dreamed of in his philosophy.
1888 Harper's Mag. Mar. 633 That sackful of rebellious piggery heaving and struggling.
1967 L. H. Fuchs Peculiar Americans ii. 77 Piggery and poultry projects were also common.
2003 Guardian (Nexis) 2 Aug. (Sat. Pages) 12 We thought it pretty amusing that she'd be teaching creative writing to all these experts in piggery and grain.
3. Piggishness; the condition, attitudes, or behaviour of a boorish or slovenly person. Also as a count noun: an instance of this.
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the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > baseness > [noun]
shendfulness?c1225
vilety?c1225
vilehead1340
wretchedness1389
caitifness1393
caitifhedea1400
caitiftya1400
unnoblenessc1400
unnobilitya1425
unnobletya1425
vilitya1425
vileness1526
lousiness1530
infamya1535
baseness1548
vildness1597
shabbiness1711
piggery1854
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > condition of being held in contempt > [noun] > state or quality of being contemptible
shendfulness?c1225
wretchdom?c1225
wretchedness1389
caitifhedea1400
vilitya1425
despectuousness1447
lousiness1530
scornfulness1535
meanness1556
contemptibleness1574
worthlessness1604
contemptibility1611
caitifness1649
despicableness1653
pitifulness1670
despisableness1673
paltriness1727
shabbiness1827
despicability1830
piggery1854
wormishness1925
shittiness1929
scuzziness1980
the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > lack of refinement > [noun] > coarseness
coarseness1541
grossness1563
swinishness1591
piggishness1796
piggery1854
blowsiness1866
1854 Spectator 18 Mar. 298/2 The most Irish part of Ireland has gone from its own Far West to a further West... It has established itself and its piggery in New York.
1885 Sat. Rev. 21 Feb. 238/1 They prefer piggery to decency.
1938 V. Seligman Puccini among Friends vi. ii. 325 Poor Mr. Higgins would infallibly have found himself relegated en permanence to the piggery from which he had so recently been rescued.
1997 Face June 85/1 It doesn't bother me that they selected me for their male chauvinistic piggeries.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
piggeryn.2
/ˈpɪɡəri/, U.S. /ˈpɪɡəri/, Scottish English /ˈpɪɡərɪ/ Scottish. Now rare.
A place where pots and vessels of earthenware are made or sold; a pottery. Also: earthenware or crockery collectively.
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society > occupation and work > workplace > place where specific things are made > [noun] > pottery
pottery1480
pothouse1673
potwork1681
piggery1818
mug-house1841
bank1843
pot-bank1888
1818 A. Fordyce Country Wedding 17 Tak' care of that tub, the pigry's in't.
1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. at Pig Piggerie, the place where earthen-ware is manufactured, a pottery.
a1901 J. B. Salmond Bawbee Bowden (1922) ii. 20 I cudda bidden a month lookin' at the piggery, there wis so muckle auld-farrant plates an' bowleys.
1922 Glasgow Herald 25 Oct. 8 My school companions and I played for many years near a piggery (pottery), and were well used with ‘flints’ and ‘cheeny cley’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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