单词 | hogman |
释义 | hogmann.1 A person (esp. a man) who tends hogs; a pig farmer. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping of pigs > [noun] > swineherd swona700 swineherdOE hogherd1279 hogman1301 pig-herd1591 swinward1614 hoggard1655 hogward1753 swine herder1860 swine girl1883 1301 in B. Thuresson Middle Eng. Occup. Terms (1950) 67 (MED) Ad. Hoggeman. 1685 W. Smith Contrivances Fanatical Conspirators in Popish Plot 3 The Neighbourhood, consisting mostly of Ale-men, Cow-men, or Hog-men, I believe never injur'd or defamed me. 1707 E. Ward Barbacue Feast 5 I want three of thy Shoats, if thoul't sell 'em me, crys the Buyer to the Seller. You may be sure I won't give 'em you, replies the Hog-man. 1828 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 4 Oct. 437 Put the corn specimens into the booth of some one who has a hog..and make the hog-man pay the expenses. 1854 Alton (Illinois) Weekly Courier 5 Oct. 2/8 The hog-man sloped with a pig's foot in his chops. 1922 Contemp. Rev. Apr. 505 Hogmen were approached to take the animals to graze and feed. 1995 Omaha (Nebraska) World-Herald (Nexis) 2 July m8 Hogmen told the USDA they intend to farrow 3.05 million sows during the June-August quarter. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). hogmann.2 Now historical and rare. An inferior or coarse type of bread. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > bread > [noun] > coarse bread black bread?c1335 trencher-breadc1460 trencher-loafc1460 hogmana1483 cribble bread1552 brown breada1556 household bread1620 a1483 Liber Niger in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (1790) 69 Office of Bakehouse... Myght there be made alweyes of a busshell xxix loves, after the old weyghtes... The sergeaunt of thys office to make continually of every busshell..xxvii loves..whyche breade shalle thus honestly enough serve this honorable housholde. Memorand', that the other twene loves be called under the name of Hogman... These twey loves grownde into branne... The Sergeaunt is charged to awnswere the King therefore viii bushels bran, and that to be delyvered for the Kinge's horses. 1511 in J. B. Paul Registrum Magni Sigilli Scotorum (1882) II. 771/2 Quolibet die 2 panes de Dominico, 4 panes de secundo pane, et 6 panes qui dicuntur hugmans. 1993 B. Harvey Living & Dying in Eng. (1995) iv. 134 In the fifteenth century, this official received two hogeman loaves daily, and a stipend of 18s..per annum. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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