hogpen

American  

[hawg-pen, hog-] / ˈhɔgˌpɛn, ˈhɒg- /

noun

1. pigpen.

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Etymology

Origin of hogpen

First recorded in 1685–95; hog + pen ²

Example Sentences

Later the distillery was abandoned, became a hogpen.

From Time Magazine Archive

And many demonstrators obediently climbed into trucks for the trip to the hogpen prison.

From Time Magazine Archive

They keep us tied up for six weeks, then stick us in that hogpen upstairs and say, 'Go ahead, give us a verdict.'

From Time Magazine Archive

But he’s been promoted, so we told him, from the yard to the hogpen.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez

Connected with your hogpen, have a yard fifteen feet square for every five hogs; let that yard have no floor.

From Soil Culture by Walden, J. H.