Pigscot

noun

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Noun
  1. 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."

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"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."

Etymology

From pig + -s- + cot.

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