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pigscot

pigscot noun: a pigsty.

Noun

pigscot (plural pigscots)

  1. A pigsty.
    • There the tire-tracks swept round a curve, away from the leafy stormy hill lane that had a rusty iron smell of cottages and pigscots. The hill went up abruptly above the roofs, and the slates shining looked like sealskin.1956, Gwyn Jones, Welsh Short Stories, page 61
    • Halfway up the garden was a set of hives, for in those days my grandfather kept bees; and then, further up the garden and well away from the house was a pigscot, where a pig, our pig, was fattened on potato and other vegetable peelings […]2000, R. H. Hickling, Memoir of a wayward lawyer, page 26

Forms of pigscot

pluralpigscots
alternative formpigscote

Origin of pigscot

From pig + -s- + cot.

Questions about pigscot

What does pigscot mean?
Pigscot means a pigsty.
What part of speech is pigscot?
Pigscot is a noun.
What is the plural of pigscot?
The plural of pigscot is pigscots.

Words near pigscot in the dictionary

  1. pigs might fly
  2. pigs off
  3. pigs out
  4. pigs' trotters
  5. pigsat
  6. pigscot
  7. pigscots
  8. pigshit
  9. pigsicle
  10. pigsicles
  11. pigsie

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