pigroot means an area of soil where pigs have turned up the ground with their snouts looking for worms, insects, and plant roots to eat.
Etymology
From pig + root.
noun
- An area of soil where pigs have turned up the ground with their snouts looking for worms, insects, and plant roots to eat.
- Any plant of the genus Sisyrinchium.
- An instance of pigrooting“Howie showed his objection to the early hour with a few pigroots—he impressed the television people but merely caused the sure-seated Maddie to laugh.”
verb
- To stick its rump in the air and lower its forequarters.“Eventually we saddled the team; then Slippery, with a snort, started pig-rooting and bolted amongst the trees, with the trackers hanging on to him.”