pigscot
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[edit]pigscot (plural pigscots)
- 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 […]