单词 | pig trough |
释义 | > as lemmaspig trough pig trough n. a trough from which pigs eat; also figurative. ΚΠ 1638 in Early Stuart Househ. Accts. (1986) 180 Paid Mason for makeing of a piggstrow and to drive Fethers.] 1724 W. Stukeley Itinerarium Curiosum 39 I went to see the stone, us'd as a pig trough at Wandlebury. 1871 D. H. Strother Virginia Illustr. 123 Their horses [were] still engaged in munching some remarkably fine oats, which had been served up in an old pig-trough. 1992 N. Cohn Heart of World x. 130 If he wished to roister, he must go wallow in the pig troughs of the bowery, the grogshops of the Five Points. < as lemmas |
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