hoggeryn.
/ˈhɒɡ(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈhɔɡəri/, /ˈhɑɡəri/ 1. A place where hogs are kept or bred; a piggery.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping of pigs > [noun] > placing in sty > pigsty or pen
sty?c1225
hoghouse1350
hog cote1414
swine sty1414
swine cote?c1430
swine housea1450
swine garth1459
swine house garth1466
hogsty?a1500
swine hulka1500
swine cruive1501
swine hull1566
cruivec1575
pigsty1580
swine's-steada1599
pigscote1599
hog pen1640
hoggery1642
crawl1661
swine crew1673
pigscot1679
1642 in Jrnl. Eng. Place-name Soc. (1938) 15 78 The Hoggery.
1760 Considerations Act Parl. Spirituous Liquors 29 Added to this, the Value of the Grains for the Hoggery.
1786 W. H. Davies Plays written for Private Theatre 199 My hoggery and poultry yard.
1808 W. Pitt Gen. View Agric. Stafford (ed. 2) viii. 110 In the middle of the yard is a very complete hoggery..in which a number of hogs are fatted on dairy refuse.
1819 A. Rees Cycl. XVIII. at Hog Sty The building of a hoggery.
1856 L. M. Sargent Dealings with Dead I. 221 This awful hoggery was located on the road, now called East Street.
1923 Lethbridge (Alberta) Daily Herald 22 Oct. 14/5 In the hoggery, Supt. Longman has a fine lot of Tamworths all ready to be turned off.
1976 Archit. Hist. 19 19 Good practical arguments could be put forward to support circular cowsheds, semicircular hoggeries and even octagonal farmhouses.
2007 Proteomics Weekly (Nexis) 17 Sept. 482 Seventeen porcine feces samples from local hoggeries were examined using the microarray.
2. Actions or behaviour characteristic of a hog; piggishness, beastliness. Also: greediness.
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the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > sensuality > [noun] > animal sensuality > swinish quality or behaviour
hoggishness1614
hoggism1786
swinishness1791
swinehood1822
hoggery1834
swinery1846
1834 Figaro in London 4 Jan. 2/2 Coarse meats, grease, currants, turkeys, hog's lard.., and indeed a general conglomeration of every thing exciting to the true John Bull passion for indiscriminate hoggery.
1872 Chambers' Eng. Dict. 386/1 Hoggery, hoggishness of character: coarseness.
1883 G. Meredith Poems & Lyrics Joy of Earth 170 But naughtiness, with hoggery, not lacks When Peace another door in them unlocks.
1933 J. Cary Amer. Visitor xx. 285 A dash of hoggery now and then may even improve and refine the artistic reactions.
2007 San Diego Union-Tribune (Nexis) 13 Dec. (Night & Day section) 11 Rev. Billy..preaches an anti-consumerist message with a shaming emphasis on holiday hoggery.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > pig > [noun] > collectively
swineOE
porkery1439
swinehood1797
piggery1851
hoggery1856
1856 E. B. Browning Aurora Leigh vii. 284 Crime and shame And all their hoggery trample your smooth world, Nor leave more foot-marks than Apollo's kine.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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