piggery

English

Etymology tree

Proto-West Germanic *puggōder.

Old English *picga

Middle English pigge

English pig

Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.

Proto-Italic *-āzios

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -ārius

Old French -ier

Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós

Proto-Italic *-ijos

Proto-Italic *-ios

Old Latin -ios

Latin -ius

Latin -ia

Old French -ie

Old French -eriebor.

Middle English -erie

English -ery

English piggery

From pig + -ery.

piggery (plural piggeries)

A place, such as a farm, where pigs are kept or raised.
- 2022, Ian McEwan, Lessons, page 99:
  Two heavy pails of swill—meat scraps floating in custard—from the school kitchens to be carried with a friend, Hans Solish, all the way to the piggery.
Piggish behaviour.

A place where pigs are kept or raised

Bikol:
Central Bikol: urigan
Bulgarian: свинарник m (svinarnik)
Danish: grisefarm c (farm), svinefarm c (farm), grisestald c (building), svinestald (da) c (building)
Finnish: sikala (fi)
French: porcherie (fr)
German: Schweinestall (de) m
Hungarian: disznóól (hu)
Irish: cró muc m, cró muice m
Macedonian: сви́њарник m (svínjarnik), пра́сарник m (prásarnik), ко́чина f (kóčina)
Russian: свина́рник (ru) m (svinárnik)
Tagalog: babuyan
Turkish: domuz ahırı

Piggish behaviour