porcophilia

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noun

Love or admiration for pigs.

OriginLatin porcus →
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Meanings

nounporcophilia (uncountable)
  1. uncountableLove or admiration for pigs.
  2. uncountableInterest in eating, rearing or associating with pigs.

    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.

    2007 September 29, 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

Origin

  1. Latinporcus“pig”
  2. Englishporcophilia

From Latin porcus (“pig”) + -philia.

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Anagrams

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Chicago

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