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Meanings of pigswill in English

Portuguese
lavagem
Catalan
gasòfia

Wet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk.

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        Synonyms
        Examples for "slop"
        Examples for "slop"
        1
        They only wanted another animal who could slop glue on their best-sellers.
        A Confederacy of Dunces
        2
        She was accordingly sent to make the beds and empty the slop.
        Homestead on the Hillside
        3
        Keep a slop-bucket near by to receive the wash of the room.
        American Woman's Home: Or, Principles of Domestic Science; / Bei...
        4
        And yet it was nothing but an ordinary suit of fifteen-dollar slop-shops.
        A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
        5
        Worked in the kitchen, preparing slop for the prisoners and the guards.
        Snow Crash
        1
        Her hand is shaking so badly that coffee slops on the floor.
        The Atrocity Archives
        2
        Kitchen slops and casual refuse continued to be thrown into the street.
        Our Legal Heritage: The First Thousand Years: 600 - 1600 / King ...
        3
        The old Professor had such slops as suggested a sickening second childhood.
        The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
        4
        The water came to you, and every room consumed its own slops.
        The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns
        5
        Every time Lurvy slops him, the food runs down around the ears.
        Charlotte’s Web
        1
        The ban on feeding swill will stay until the end of December.
        The Irish Times
        2
        Several port-coloured men swill and gurgle and spit wine into silver buckets.
        The Irish Times
        3
        Half the year they smuggle and swill, the other half they starve.
        Debit and Credit / Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag
        4
        He can memorise at sight all the revolting contents of a swill-tub.
        Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, April 23, 1919
        5
        They swill the cordial till ten o'clock and at last they go.
        Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends
        1
        They fell down, hitting each other indiscriminately, knocked over the pail, and rolled about in the pigwash.
        Selected Polish Tales
        Usage of pigswill in English
        1
        Take the pigswill before your eyes as exhibit A.
        The Guardian
        2
        Soon every cinemagoer will have the right to demand recompense when they've been subjected to 120 minutes of pigswill.
        The Irish Times
        3
        The Department of Agriculture has today confirmed a ban on pigswill with immediate effect, as part of its efforts to combat foot-and-mouth.
        The Irish Times
        4
        Ministers have also proposed a ban on pigswill and a 20-day "standstill period" on the movement of sheep, goats and cattle.
        The Irish Times
        5
        The whey protein leftovers used to end up as pigswill on farms across the State until some bright spark reconstituted them as performance nutrition.
        The Irish Times
        Frequent collocations
        Translations for pigswill
        Portuguese
        lavagem
        Catalan
        gasòfia
        Pigswill through the time