| 单词 | hog age |
| 释义 | > as lemmashog age hog age n. U.S. (now rare) adolescence. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > young person > [noun] > adolescent > adolescence or puberty pubertyc1384 adolescence?a1425 adolescency?a1475 in one's teens1596 pubes1637 pubescency1658 pubescence1822 teenhood1845 hog age1848 the awkward age1895 prepubescence1908 prepuberty1922 teenagery1950 teenagedness1952 jean-age1959 1848 J. Mitchell in Amer. Speech (1935) 10 40 Hog age, between Boyhood & Manhood. 1882 Bangor (Maine) Daily Whig & Courier 24 Aug. Little men get cured of those elevated notions, as little boys get cured of the hog age. 1916 W. S. Hinchman Amer. School vii. 127 A great many girls of fourteen or fifteen are just at a period of intense, almost morbid, moral development, whereas boys at that time of life are commonly in what is known as the ‘hog age’. 1952 J. M. Springer I Love Trail iii. 29 A strong affection naturally had existed between Helen and her mother from her childhood on. This had increased during her teens, even though that was the daughter's ‘hog age’, as her mother termed it. < as lemmas |
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