Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A place where swine are kept; a piggery; hence, a horde of swine or swinish persons.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare Same as
piggery .
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- noun A
piggery .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The Irish, he wrote, were a “brawling unreasonable people,” a “human swinery,” and “a black howling Babel of superstitious savages.”
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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As one of those rare “inventor pigs” Wilbur was determined to make his pig scooter the talk of the swinery
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Just to our own dear old swinery of gramophones and billycock hats.
Burmese Days 2002
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The squire had authority for his broad farce, except in so far as he mixed up my father in the swinery of it.
The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Volume 6 George Meredith 1868
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The squire had authority for his broad farce, except in so far as he mixed up my father in the swinery of it.
The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Complete George Meredith 1868
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That swinery of a place she insists on visiting is usually crammed.
The Amazing Marriage — Volume 1 George Meredith 1868
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That swinery of a place she insists on visiting is usually crammed.
The Amazing Marriage — Complete George Meredith 1868
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The squire had authority for his broad farce, except in so far as he mixed up my father in the swinery of it.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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That swinery of a place she insists on visiting is usually crammed.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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The guest of honor is rolled out on a cart head intact, radiant in all its swinery.
unknown title 2009
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