Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A place where pigs are raised or kept.
- noun Piggish conduct.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A place where pigs are kept; a pigsty or set of pigsties.
- noun A place where earthen vessels are made or sold; a pottery.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A place where swine are kept.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a place, such as a
farm , wherepigs arekept orraised - noun
piggish behaviour
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a farm where pigs are raised or kept
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Examples
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She thinks that having a piggery is a very productive business.
Kiva Loans 2009
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The 'piggery' which Jack invented, ... became famous the world over, not only among farmers but with curious laymen as well.
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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.
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"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,"
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Choreographing the entrances and exits to and from the kitchen, the bedrooms, the cowshed and the "piggery" was a challenge in itself.
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Choreographing the entrances and exits to and from the kitchen, the bedrooms, the cowshed and the "piggery" was a challenge in itself.
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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.
icNewcastle 2009
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If women wanted to compete with men in piggery today, they certainly could.
Robin Lakoff: Why Women Aren't Pigs Robin Lakoff 2011
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If women wanted to compete with men in piggery today, they certainly could.
Robin Lakoff: Why Women Aren't Pigs Robin Lakoff 2011
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London stocked his piggery with only the finest pedigreed pigs.
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