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piggery

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piggery /ˈpɪgəri/ noun
plural piggeries
piggery
/ˈpɪgəri/
noun
plural piggeries
Learner's definition of PIGGERY
[count] chiefly British
: a place where pigs are kept or raised猪舍;猪圈
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piggery

noun

pig·​gery ˈpi-gə-rē How to pronounce piggery (audio)
plural piggeries
1
: a place where swine are kept
2
: swinish behavior

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web Yes, the town’s oldest tree was cut down, in 1960, a victim of Dutch Elm disease, and odor complaints finally led to the revocation of the license for the town’s last remaining piggery. Bill Mckibben, The New Yorker, 1 May 2022 Outbreaks in at least 115 piggeries are predicted to reduce China’s swine inventory by 13 percent in 2019. Jason Gale | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2019 Some who graduated paid for those degrees on the earnings from backyard piggeries, or made their pocket money selling Popsicles on the street. Aurora Almendral, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2019 Millions of small piggeries were closed as part of a nationwide program aimed at shifting pork production to larger, more efficient farms. Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2019 There are racists, sexists, piggery of various kinds who will say really terrible things. Thomas Fuller, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2017

Word History

First Known Use

1780, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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The first known use of piggery was in 1780
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