hogpen
- noun
- /ˈhɔɡˌpɛn/
- US
:
establo de cerdos
- Dutch skirted the lush, giant weeds around the hogpen and slipped into the edge of the woods.
Examples
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Instead of going into the outhouse, he stepped past the little weathered building toward the hogpen.
Fiction book (1999) -
The stink of the hogpen was the realest thing Dutch had encountered since getting off the bus.
Fiction book (1999) -
"Poor things," Nettie said aloud as she looked past the barn to the hogpen.
Fiction book (1992) -
He had forgotten the particular stench of the hogpen, and the smell blossomed against his face in the bright air.
Fiction book (1999) -
She had learned to think of herself as living and working at the center of a wonderful provisioning: the kitchen and garden, hogpen and smokehouse, hen house and cellar of her own household; the little commerce of giving and taking that spoked out along the paths connecting her household to the others.
Fiction book (1992) -
The farmer built a new structure to keep the pigs in the hogpen behind his house.
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Every morning, she feeds the pigs before heading to the hogpen to clean up their enclosure.
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The dogs barked excitedly as the pigs rolled around in the mud near the hogpen.
Synonyms
63
3.5
A small area for keeping animals like pigs or chickens
16
2.1
A place where pigs live and sleep
4
2.1
A small fenced area where pigs live
2
3.1
A small fenced area where farmers keep animals before moving them
2
4.5
A small pen where pigs are kept
An enclosed area where farmers keep animals for a short time before moving them
A small fenced area that holds animals like sheep or cattle for a short time
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Hogpen comes from two simple English words: hog ('pig') and pen ('small enclosure'). So a hogpen is originally a fenced place where pigs are kept.