pigroot

pig +‎ root

pigroot (plural pigroots)

1. An area of soil where pigs have turned up the ground with their snouts looking for worms, insects, and plant roots to eat.
2. Any plant of the genus Sisyrinchium.
3. An instance of pigrooting
   • 2015, Fiona McCallum, Return to the Adelaide Hills, page 418:

     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.

pigroot (third-person singular simple present pigroots, present participle pigrooting, simple past and past participle pigrooted)

1. (of a horse or other steed) To stick its rump in the air and lower its forequarters.
   • 1998, Bob Flatt, Bull from the bush: Australian outback yarns, page 24:

     I put my hand over the saddle and grabbed the monkey or jug handle (a strap fitted to the offside top of the saddle and used to help you get mounted fast — if the horse pigroots you can hold on to this to stop yourself coming off) and slowly started to pull myself aboard.