piggery
Americannoun
noun
-
a place where pigs are kept and reared
-
great greediness; piggishness
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of piggery
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
Dormant since 1985, the distillery recently announced it would reopen, and build the region’s first “whisky resort,” complete with a spa, a five-star hotel and a bistro housed in a former piggery.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026
Guo says she came to local politics from the pig-farming business, having managed her family's commercial piggery for several years.
From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2025
On 25 February, the government officially diagnosed the Grong Grong piggery with JEV.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 21, 2023
Asilo and his family have survived for decades off the proceeds from his vegetable farm, piggery, coconut grove and on-and-off work as caretaker of a nearby gravel and sand quarry.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 19, 2023
There were stables, cowsheds, a piggery, a chicken house, and two large barns with haylofts.
From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys
Staffs at piggeries got priority: All but two of 26 employees at the Grong Grong farm rolled up their sleeves 11 days after the farm was diagnosed.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 21, 2023
Webb and colleagues later analyzed the landscape around dozens of domestic piggeries and found a strong association between transient wetland expansion and piggery infection—a link at least partly explained by the proliferation of mosquitoes.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 21, 2023
The houses on Portland Road were built in the 1850s on waste land between the downmarket Norland estate, home to the squalid piggeries and potteries, and the fancy new Ladbroke Estate, which became Notting Hill.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2012
Rovio will also add social features to the original Angry Birds that will allow people to find their Facebook friends and smash some piggeries with them.
From New York Times ● Mar. 11, 2011
Yet had the piggery been tiled, the time-honoured hostel would even now at this last moment have been safe; but it was constructed as piggeries are mostly constructed, of wood and thatch.
From Desperate Remedies by Hardy, Thomas
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
