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piggery

piggery noun: a place, such as a farm, where pigs are kept or raised.

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.

piggery meaning in Tamil, Kannada, Tagalog and Malay

piggery in Tamil

பன்றிக்காலை, பன்றிப் பண்ணை

piggery in Kannada

ಹಂದಿರೊಪ್ಪ, ಹಂದಿ ಸಾಕಣೆ ಸ್ಥಳ, ಕೊಳಕು ಜಾಗ, ಹೊಲಸು ಜಾಗ

piggery in Tagalog

A place where pigs are kept or raised
babuyan

piggery in Malay

Piggish behaviour
kebabian

Forms of piggery

pluralpiggeries

Origin of piggery

From pig + -ery.

Questions about piggery

What does piggery mean?
Piggery means a place, such as a farm, where pigs are kept or raised.
What is piggery in Tamil?
Piggery in Tamil is பன்றிக்காலை, பன்றிப் பண்ணை. See Piggery meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is piggery?
Piggery is a noun.
What is the plural of piggery?
The plural of piggery is piggeries.

Words near piggery in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: piggery (page history and authors); piggery (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); piggery (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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