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pig bucket

pig bucket noun: a bucket (or similar receptacle) used to collect kitchen waste to be used as pig fodder.

Noun

pig bucket (plural pig buckets)

  1. (New Zealand) A bucket (or similar receptacle) used to collect kitchen waste to be used as pig fodder.
    • I have many a time seen large portions of quartern loaves, pieces of meat, bones, potatoes, etc., in the pig-bucket in the scullery.1921, Montagu Lomax, The Experiences of an Asylum Doctor, London: Allen & Unwin, page 122

Forms of pig bucket

pluralpig buckets

Questions about pig bucket

What does pig bucket mean?
Pig bucket means a bucket (or similar receptacle) used to collect kitchen waste to be used as pig fodder.
What part of speech is pig bucket?
Pig bucket is a noun.
What is the plural of pig bucket?
The plural of pig bucket is pig buckets.

Words near pig bucket in the dictionary

  1. pig banks
  2. pig bed
  3. pig beds
  4. pig board
  5. pig boards
  6. pig bucket
  7. pig butcher
  8. pig butchered
  9. pig butchering
  10. pig butchers
  11. pig dog

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