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hoggery|ˈhɒgərɪ|
[f. hog n.1 + -ery.]
1. A place where hogs are kept; a hog-yard.
1819Rees Cycl. s.v. Hog Sty, The building of a hoggery.
2. Hogs or swine collectively.
1856Mrs. Browning Aur. Leigh vii. 265 Crime and shame And all their hoggery trample your smooth world, Nor leave more footmarks than Apollo's kine.
3. Hoggishness, swinishness, brutishness. rare.
1864in Webster. 1933J. Cary Amer. Visitor xx. 285 A dash of hoggery now and then may even improve and refine the artistic reactions. |