pigscot

noun

Etymology

From pig + -s- + cot.

  1. derived from cote
  2. inherited from cot
  3. inherited from *kuttô — “woolen fabric, wool covering
  4. inherited from *cot
  5. inherited from cot — “matted wool
  6. compounded as pigscot — “pig + -s- + cot

Definitions

  1. A pigsty.

    • There the tire-tracks swept round a curve, away from the leafy stormy hill lane that had a rusty iron smell of cottages and pigscots. The hill went up abruptly above the roofs, and the slates shining looked like sealskin.
    • Halfway up the garden was a set of hives, for in those days my grandfather kept bees; and then, further up the garden and well away from the house was a pigscot, where a pig, our pig, was fattened on potato and other vegetable peelings […]

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA