Hoggery
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
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- n hoggery A place where hogs or swine are kept; a piggery.
- n hoggery A collection of hogs or swine.
- n hoggery Hoggishness; swinishness; brutishness.
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Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
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- Hoggery hoggishness of character: coarseness
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Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
M. E. hogge, a gelded hog, prob. from hack, to cut; others derive from W. hwch, a sow, Bret. houch, hoch.
In literature:
This awful hoggery was located on the road, now called East Street.
"Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2)" by A Sexton of the Old School
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