pigswill

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  1. wet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk

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  • And peelings and kitchen waste for the pigswill, same as everyone else. —  A Presumption of Death - Jill Paton Walsh, Dorothy L Sayers, - [Wimsey-Vane]
  • Babinsky hated pigs, and after that first feeding, he shunned the sty, some said in fear that the spectre of the man he had chopped up and then ground up and then stirred in with the pigswill lay in wait for him there, to wreak revenge from the realm of death. —  Hooting Yard
  • Is claim walking as polluting as driving just pigswill? —  BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition
  • Obama is an unattended reproduction machine for liberal, socialist giveaway programs, wealth redistribution schemes and all other leftist pigswill. —  Yahoo! Buzz US: Top Stories
  • Since the pigswill ban —  New Statesman
 

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