pigscot

English

Alternative forms

• pigscote

Etymology

pig +‎ -s- +‎ cot

Noun

pigscot (plural pigscots)

1. A pigsty.
   • 1956, Gwyn Jones, Welsh Short Stories, page 61:

     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.

   • 2000, R. H. Hickling, Memoir of a wayward lawyer, page 26:

     Halfway up the garden was a set of hives, for in those days my grandfather kept bees; and then, further up the garden and well away from the house was a pigscot, where a pig, our pig, was fattened on potato and other vegetable peelings […]