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porcophilia

porcophilia noun: love or admiration for pigs.

Noun

porcophilia (uncountable)

  1. Love or admiration for pigs.
  2. Interest in eating, rearing or associating with pigs.
    • Porcophobia and porcophilia — thus probably originate in a nighttime of human sacrifice and even cannibalism at which the “holy” texts often do more than hint.2007 September, Christopher Hitchens, “God is not great”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), A Short Digression on the Pig; or, Why Heaven Hates Ham

Origin of porcophilia

From Latin porcus (“pig”) + -philia.

Questions about porcophilia

What does porcophilia mean?
Porcophilia means love or admiration for pigs.
What part of speech is porcophilia?
Porcophilia is a noun.

Words near porcophilia in the dictionary

  1. porcini
  2. porcinis
  3. porcino
  4. porcinophilic
  5. Porco
  6. porcophilia
  7. porcophobia
  8. Porcos
  9. porcpisce
  10. porcpisces
  11. porcupette

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