hoghoodn.
/ˈhɒɡhʊd/, U.S. /ˈhɔɡˌ(h)ʊd/, /ˈhɑɡˌ(h)ʊd/ Now rare.
The fact or condition of being a hog or like a hog.
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hoghood1834
1834 C. F. Hoffman Let. 3 Apr. in Winter in West (1835) II. 133 The fated porker, that was but one minute before grunting in the full enjoyment of bristling hoghood.
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. i. vii. 69 Many a Circe Island, with..temporary conversion into beasthood and hoghood.
1886 Iowa State Reporter (Waterloo) 5 Aug. 4/4 We fear some of our young porkers just blooming into youth, with prospects bright and encouraging to reach adult hoghood, will come to a premature grave.
1900 49th Ann. Rep. Indiana State Board Agric. 1899–1900 373 [The pig] is fed more so he will not go down hill at a time he should be growing out of pighood into hoghood.
1960 S. Plath Colossus 13 This vast Brobdingnag bulk Of a sow lounged belly-bedded on that black compost, Fat-rutted eyes Dream-filmed. What a vision of ancient hoghood must Thus wholly engross The great grandam.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.1834- without further ado
- without further delay
- without gab
- without gainsaying
- without grief
- without grith
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- without guilt
- without hight
- without hone
- without impeachment of waste
- without intermission
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- without lain
- without language
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- without let
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- without lite
- without longer delay