Pigswill (Noun)
Meaning
Wet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk.
Classification
Nouns denoting foods and drinks.
Examples
- The farmer mixed up a batch of pigswill to feed to his pigs for the day.
- The slop bucket was filled to the brim with a foul-smelling pigswill that the chickens refused to eat.
- After dinner, the cook would scrap the leftover vegetables into a pot of pigswill for the animals.
- The piggery was small but well-run, with a constant supply of nutritious pigswill to keep the animals healthy.
- In the old days, people would use a cauldron to boil up a giant batch of pigswill that would last for days.