pigswill

1 9.3

Wet food made from kitchen waste mixed with water or milk to feed pigs

noun
/ˈpɪɡˌswɪl/

: comida para cerdos

Examples

Robert Heinlein went so far as to strongly suggest that even the Soviet population statistics were pigswill.

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Farmers often mix kitchen scraps with water to create pigswill for their livestock.
The restaurant's leftovers were transformed into nutritious pigswill for the pigs.
In rural areas, it's common to see pigswill being delivered to farms to feed the animals.

Synonyms

swill

vspigswill

13 8.5

Food leftovers mixed with water or milk used to feed pigs

is limited to feed made for a single farm animal rather than various livestock

slop

vspigswill

11 6.4

Wet, unappetizing food often fed to animals

refers specifically to kitchen waste mixed with liquid for farm animal feed

pigwash

vspigswill

9.9

A wet mix of kitchen scraps and water used to feed pigs

is the same meaning but differs only in name

slops

vspigswill

Archaic

7.6

Kitchen waste mixed with water or milk that people feed to pigs

is specific to feed for a single farm animal rather than animals in general

Compounds

pigswill of cliché

Literature

9.9

A messy collection of boring, overused phrases

How Wet

slurry

Specialized

9 7.7

pigswill

1 9.3

mash

36 4.3

feed

89 1.0

Surface Forms

pigswill singular

pigswills plural

Morphology

pigswill = pig + swill (transparent) = pig + swill

The meaning is directly the combination of 'pig' + 'swill' (food/waste used to feed pigs), which is clear to learners.

Etymology

Pigswill is simply the compound of pig and swill, where swill means 'liquid food or kitchen waste'. So pigswill is easy to remember: it is the wet food made from household scraps and water that people feed to pigs.