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🍺 A greedy drinker 🐖 An animal eating waste
swiller

swiller

8.8
An animal that eats leftover food, especially a pig
  • noun
  • /ˈswɪlər/
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  • The swiller eagerly rooted through the pile of kitchen scraps behind the barn.

Examples

  • In the muddy pen, the old swiller grunted happily as it found more to eat.

  • Farmers often let a swiller clean up leftover food waste from the household.

  • The swiller eagerly devoured the leftover scraps.

  • Farmers often raise swillers to reduce food waste.

  • The swiller rummaged through the compost pile, looking for tasty leftovers.

  • On the farm, a swiller is often seen happily munching on food scraps.

  • The farmer kept a swiller to ensure no food waste went to waste on the property.

Synonyms

hog
vsswiller
78 1.0

A large pig kept on a farm for meat

focuses on eating food waste rather than being raised for meat
porker
vsswiller
8 7.0

A pig raised to be sold for meat

focuses on eating food waste rather than being fattened for meat

Surface Forms

swiller singular
swillers plural

Morphology

swiller = swill (semi-transparent) = swill + er

The word is regularly formed with agentive '-er' from 'swill', but the specific sense 'an animal that eats swill' is somewhat specialized.

Etymology

Swiller comes from swill ('kitchen scraps or food waste') plus the ending -er meaning 'one who'. So, a swiller is an animal, especially a pig, that eats swill and cleans up leftover food.