porcophilia
English
editEtymology
editLatin porcus (“pig”) + -philia
Noun
editporcophilia (uncountable)
- Love or admiration for pigs.
- Interest in eating, rearing or associating with pigs.
- 2007 September, Christopher Hitchens, “God is not great”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), A Short Digression on the Pig; or, Why Heaven Hates Ham:
- Porcophobia and porcophilia — thus probably originate in a nighttime of human sacrifice and even cannibalism at which the “holy” texts often do more than hint.