What do you call a group of pigs?

Answer 1

swine

is the same as saying a herd of pigs just easier on the tong
grandfather has a pig farm

Answer 2

The term "herd" refers to "..a group of cattle or other domestic animals of a single kind kept together for a
specific use" ( The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, William Morris, editor, Houghton Mifflin Company,
1982).

Answer 3

Guessing - but swine are a herd so herd of pigs doesn't sound like much of a stretch.

Answer 4

A herd of pigs

definition of herd: "..a group of cattle or other domestic animals of a single kind kept together for a specific use"

Answer 5

this is what i found

herd

herd1

herd [hurd]
n (plural herds)
1. agriculture large group of domestic animals: a large number of domestic animals, especially cattle, often of the same breed, that are kept, driven, or reared together
2. zoology large group of wild animals: a large number of wild animals of the same kind that live, feed, and travel as a group
3. large group of people: a large group of people, often with a common interest, purpose, or bond
herds of eager shoppers

4. ordinary people acting as group: ordinary people, considered as acting or thinking as a group and lacking the ability to think as individuals (disapproving)
She was never one to follow the herd.
herd2

herd [hurd]
(plural herds)
n
somebody who tends animals: somebody who looks after domestic animals (archaic) (usually used in combination)


[Old English hirdi . Ultimately from the same prehistoric Germanic word that produced herd1 “group of animals.”]
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v (past herd·ed, past participle herd·ed, present participle herd·ing, 3rd person present singular herds)
1. vt agriculture control group of animals: to drive, keep, or look after domestic animals as a group
2. vt move or collect a group: to move people or animals somewhere as a group, or collect them into a group
We were herded onto buses.

3. vi form or move in a group: to gather together or go somewhere as a group


[Old English heord . Ultimately from an Indo-European word meaning “row, group” that is also the ancestor of German Herde.]

ride herd on somebody to supervise somebody strictly
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Answer 6

a herd or just pigs

Answer 7

A herd

Answer 8

A passle, e.g., a passle of pigs.

Answer 9

a herd

Answer 10

Drove
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