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Pigswill is leftover food — often wet, mixed, and no longer for people — that is given to pigs to eat. Farms, and in older times households, would save scraps, peelings, and kitchen slops, and that mix was pigswill. It is a blunt, slightly old-fashioned British-leaning word, and it sounds messy on purpose. People also throw it as an insult at very bad food (“this is pigswill”), though that is rough talk. Though actually, you will not hear it much in careful writing now; leftovers or slops is what many speakers would say. It is farm language first, a rude food-word second.
餿水、豬食(廚餘拿去餵豬的那種)。不是「豬的飲料」。
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
pigswillnoun
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swill: slops fed to pigs
- He came down the slope towards the church at speed, holding his breath against the smell of warmed pigswill from the sty.
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nonsense, rubbish
- ‘With respect, Professor . . .’ ‘Pigswill! You don’t respect me. You fear me, are irritated by me, envy me . . . you everything me, but you do not respect me.[…]’
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。