单词 | pig-herd |
释义 | pig-herdn. A person who tends pigs. 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 1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Porquero A pigheard. a1697 J. Aubrey Brief Lives (1898) II. 304 He sent for all his servants, even the piggard-boy, to come and heare his palinode. 1755 J. Shebbeare Lydia xvi. 184 It whas a Pig-herd who tid maak this Tiscovery. 1820 P. B. Shelley Œdipus Tyrannus ii. 35 Squabbling makes pig-herds hungry, and they dine On bacon, and whip sucking-pigs the more. 1886 W. J. Tucker Life E. Europe 213 Magyar..cattle-drivers, Bulgarian pig-herds,..Wallachian shepherds. 1902 L. Higgin Spanish Life in Town & Country (1904) x. 166 In Valencia, my delight was to watch the pig-herd and his troop. 1998 Amer. Hist. Rev. 103 358 A young pigherd from the diocese of Poitiers lived with his married brother for two months after he became crippled. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1591 |
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