Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A hog-sty; a pig-sty.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A pen or sty for hogs.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
pigpen .
Etymologies
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Examples
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A man tried to drive pigs into a higher corner of the hogpen, which was partly submerged in the flood water in Nanchong, southwest Chinas Sichuan province, Monday.
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If they'd go home and they work on their hogpen or they work in the garden, if they had a rough time at the mill, they just let it go on off, don't think any more about it.
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He'd get a few logs and bring it and repair his hogpen, whatever he needed to do to his barn.
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I killed their mother for raiding our truckpatch and hogpen and I found these little fellows up near the den, starving and unable to fend for themselves.
David Lannarck, Midget An Adventure Story George S. Harney
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I'm alone most of the time and I dream a lot, and I'm afraid I see you here in my cabin, and along the brook, and under the pines, and riding Calico -- which you came to do well -- and on my hogpen fence -- and, oh, everywhere!
The Call of the Canyon Zane Grey 1905
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Remember that it is far more profitable to raise twenty baskets of fine, well-shaped, clean, handsome apples or peaches or any other hand-eaten fruit, than to raise a hundred barrels of stuff that is good only for the common drier or for the mill or hogpen.
Three Acres and Liberty Bolton Hall 1896
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You'd keep the place looking like a hogpen, if I wasn't at you all the time.
Back Home Eugene Wood 1891
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Presently I came upon a rickety trapdoor, which opened into the hogpen; the cover of the trapdoor was turned askew and hung down into the dark hole.
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But, taking an axe, we cut young pine trees and constructed a fence round the wagon to serve as a hogpen.
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He saved Raw just when you wanted to stab your eye out with a fork After Backlash, Raw became filthier than a pay-per-view hogpen
Scott's Blog of Doom 2010
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