Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A place where pigs are raised or kept.
- n. Piggish conduct.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A place where pigs are kept; a pigsty or set of pigsties.
- n. A place where earthen vessels are made or sold; a pottery.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A place where swine are kept.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a farm where pigs are raised or kept
Examples
“She thinks that having a piggery is a very productive business.”
“The 'piggery' which Jack invented, ... became famous the world over, not only among farmers but with curious laymen as well.”
“My grandparents used to live about a mile down a country road in Massachusetts from a small pig farm, or "piggery" as Grandpa called it.”
“Apart from providing appropriate skills training to the parents of such children, health, education and training in cookery, sewing and farming such as piggery and agriculture will be offered,”
“Choreographing the entrances and exits to and from the kitchen, the bedrooms, the cowshed and the "piggery" was a challenge in itself.”
“Outside, there is one attached single garage and one detached single garage, two store rooms, a piggery which is currently used as storage, a courtyard with parking for multiple cars and about ¾ acre of garden.”
“If women wanted to compete with men in piggery today, they certainly could.”
“London stocked his piggery with only the finest pedigreed pigs.”
“Among other things I am starting to build a piggery that will be the delight of all the pig-men in the United States.”
“They were shown over the cattery, the piggery, the milkers, and the kennelry, as Mrs. Mortimer called her live stock departments.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘piggery’.
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Interesting words
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Swine
For more aporkalyptic fun, see madmouth's Everything's better with a pig in it.
For "references to the Dursleys in Wizard People, Dear Reader, Brad Neely's cosmos-shattering voiceover ...swine, pig, hog, boar, pork, pork bellies, hog cholera, swineherd, pigsty, swine flu, oink, pig in a blanket and 188 more...
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Twitter favourites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
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Papageno's Words, Pt. I
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Bushel
Heir to Beachcomb, words that I like.
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