pigdomn.
/ˈpɪɡdəm/, U.S. /ˈpɪɡdəm/ humorous.
The condition of being a pig or like a pig; the realm of pigs.
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1850 T. Carlyle Latter-day Pamphlets viii. 29 ‘Have you Law and Justice in Pigdom?’... ‘There is a sentiment in Pig-nature sometimes called indignation, revenge &c.’
1879 G. A. Sala Paris herself Again I. iii. 41 Every phase of human hoggishness developed by excess into an unmitigated pigdom is there illustrated.
1926 H. Belloc Compan. Mr. Wells's ‘Outline Hist.’ ii. 25/1 All the past he has been becoming a pig, and all the future he will spend evolving out of pigdom, and pig is but a moment's phase in the eternal flux.
2003 Sunday Star-Times (N.Z.) (Nexis) 22 June 16 She safely steers us from pigdom by telling us we've ordered too much.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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