Definitions

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  • noun swill (mixture fed to pigs)
  • noun nonsense

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

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Examples

  • Motorway service stations joined railways as a particular target of his ire for the "pigswill" routinely purveyed.

    Egon Ronay 2010

  • And someone who will smile politely and clear his plate when the mother in law presents him with her usual pigswill. (apologies to my father for outing his real reason for being so skinny.)

    Cheeseburger Gothic » Ladies Lounge 2009

  • Others tell a slightly different story, involving Green denouncing an offer put forward by the Sony chief as "pigswill".

    Profile: Philip Green 2011

  • Others tell a slightly different story, involving Green denouncing an offer put forward by the Sony chief as "pigswill".

    Profile: Philip Green 2011

  • I see that the Islamophobic pigswill is once again flowing in from Melanie Phillips's pig sty.

    John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009

  • Every captured Jihadist knows the form by now; Allege the most hideous crimes of torture and humiliation against US armed forces and a BBC reporter wanting to believe such pigswill will appear, microphone in hand, prepared to provide an echo chamber for the enemy.

    LEADING THE JIHAD 2009

  • Every captured Jihadist knows the form by now; Allege the most hideous crimes of torture and humiliation against US armed forces and a BBC reporter wanting to believe such pigswill will appear, microphone in hand, prepared to provide an echo chamber for the enemy.

    Archive 2009-06-24 2009

  • We're here happily discussing Jim Carry never marrying Jenny McCarthy and ignoring the fact that The Number 23 looks like a rancid bag of pigswill that only idiots will go and see.

    Jim Carrey & Jenny McCarthy No Longer An Insufferable Couple 2007

  • And peelings and kitchen waste for the pigswill, same as everyone else.

    Presumption of Death Sayers, Dorothy L. 2002

  • He added that although strict new measures were recently introduced to dispose of swill as quarantine waste, Transnet previously contracted out waste disposal to private companies which profited by selling it to farmers as pigswill in contravention of international practice, the report said.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

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    July 12, 2008

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    August 13, 2010