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piggeries

piggeries is the plural of piggery.

Meaning of piggery

Noun

piggery (plural piggeries)

  1. A place, such as a farm, where pigs are kept or raised.
    • Two heavy pails of swill—meat scraps floating in custard—from the school kitchens to be carried with a friend, Hans Solish, all the way to the piggery.2022, Ian McEwan, Lessons, page 99
  2. Piggish behaviour.

Questions about piggeries

What is piggeries the plural of?
Piggeries is the plural of piggery.

Words near piggeries in the dictionary

  1. pigged off
  2. pigged out
  3. Piggee
  4. Piggees
  5. pigger
  6. piggeries
  7. piggers
  8. piggery
  9. piggesnye
  10. Piggi-Billa
  11. piggie

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