pig-rootingn.
/ˈpɪɡruːtɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈpɪɡˌrudɪŋ/, /ˈpɪɡˌrʊdɪŋ/, Australian English /ˈpɪɡruːtɪŋ/, /ˈpɪɡruːdɪŋ/, New Zealand English /ˈpɪɡruːdɪŋ/ 1. Australian and New Zealand. The action in a horse of kicking up with the hind legs (cf. pig-root v. 2).
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1900 Bulletin (Sydney) 14 July 15/1 I saw a colt after much buck jumping and pig-rooting, get rid of rider, saddle and girth.
1924 L. St. C. Grondona Kangaroo keeps on Talking 96 In ‘pigrooting’ the horse kicks up his hind heels with great vigour and in an apparent effort to stand on his forefeet.
1996 Weekly Times (Austral.) (Nexis) 6 Nov. 30 He [sc. a pony] was as round as a barrel and had the art of pig-rooting down pat.
2. New Zealand. A patch of ground grubbed or rooted up by wild pigs. rare.
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1921 H. Guthrie-Smith Tutira xix. 169 It [sc. manuka] now began to colonise the paddock..appearing about pig-rootings, along sheep-tracks.
1977 G. Bruce Life in Hinterland South Island 75 Here too is fresh evidence of the Captain Cook habitat (pig rootings).
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
pig-rootingadj.
/ˈpɪɡruːtɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈpɪɡˌrudɪŋ/, /ˈpɪɡˌrʊdɪŋ/, Australian English /ˈpɪɡruːtɪŋ/, /ˈpɪɡruːdɪŋ/, New Zealand English /ˈpɪɡruːdɪŋ/ Australian and New Zealand.
Designating a horse that pig-roots; of or relating to pig-rooting (cf. pig-root v. 2).
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1913 Bulletin (Sydney) 20 Mar. 16/4 I've seen a monkey in a circus remain on a pig-rooting Australian outlaw, but was it a horseman?
1946 Bulletin (Sydney) 30 Oct. 29/2 The Mopoke's opening bowler is a long, lean cove with the action of a pigrooting brumby.
1993 Herald Sun (Melbourne) (Nexis) 30 Sept. One of the greatest horses we have had but could erupt into a pig-rooting frenzy if anything upset him.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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