pigscot

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Etymology

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From pig +‎ -s- +‎ cot.

Noun

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pigscot (plural pigscots)

  1. A pigsty.
    • 1956, Gwyn Jones, Welsh Short Stories, page 61:
      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.
    • 2000, R. H. Hickling, Memoir of a wayward lawyer, page 26:
      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 []