swineryn.
/ˈswʌɪn(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈswaɪnəri/ 1. Pigs collectively. Also figurative: coarse, debased, or uncivilized people considered collectively. Now somewhat rare.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > [noun] > group Suiformes (hippos and pigs) > family Suidae (swine) > collectively
swineOE
swinery1888
1711 tr. T. Richards (Latin) Descr. Hogland 1 Bogo, a Man of great Penetration in the Mystery of Swinery.
1833 Fraser's Mag. June 705/2 It is delightful to the swinery of earth to hear that Homer was a blind old beggarman.
1888 J. A. Lees & W. J. Clutterbuck B.C. 1887: Ramble in Brit. Columbia (1892) xxxiv. 376 A squealing, grunting, parti-coloured streak of swinery went scuttering past.
1976 Ann. Rep. Inst. of Geosci. (Univ. of Tsukuba) 2 50/1 From about 1960, watermelon, tobacco and swinery were introduced by a part of the large farm household.
2014 Brit. Jrnl. Virol. 1 39/1 Aichivirus C is also widely existent in healthy swinery.
2. A place where pigs are kept or bred; a pigsty or piggery. Also figurative: a building or room likened to this in being very unclean, untidy, etc.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping of pigs > [noun] > piggery
swinery1740
piggery1780
1740 London Mag. May 228/1 (heading) To the honourable Master of the Swineries in and about London.
1778 W. Marshall Minutes Agric. Digest 22 The Swinery..is very commodious.
1895 G. Meredith Amazing Marriage 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.
1913 Michigan Farmer 8 Feb. 178/3 The holding company..has acquired a 200-acre farm in Newaygo county for the operation of a swinery on a large scale.
2009 BusinessWorld (Philippines) (Nexis) 17 Aug. s1/5 Should the Sumilao farmers insist that they get the disputed 144 hectares and uproot the swinery?
3. Objectionable or deplorable actions or behaviour; esp. underhand, illicit, or scandalous activity. Cf. Schweinerei n.
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the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > sensuality > [noun] > animal sensuality > swinish quality or behaviour
hoggishness1614
hoggism1786
swinishness1791
swinehood1822
hoggery1834
swinery1846
1846 Eclectic Rev. June 716 What roused that proverbially Catholic Spain to universal hostility to monkery, and broke up at once that old system of epicurean swinery?
1871 G. Meredith Harry Richmond II. xxi. 316 The squire had authority for his broad farce, except in so far as he mixed up my father in the swinery of it.
1929 Christian Leader 2 Mar. 281/3 I think there ought to be some distinct liberal opposition to the kind of ‘swinery’ going on under the guise of a higher tariff.
1989 Times 10 Aug. 12/7 The cheating, drugging, fighting, boozing, whoring and general swinery that are now, alas, an inseparable concomitant to any substantial gathering of athletes.
2009 Weekend Austral. (Nexis) 19 Sept. 15 They are..uncomfortable with the exposure of public and private swinery, which can involve serious legal risks and embarrassments.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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