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单词 hog stag
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hog stagn.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: hog n.1, stag n.1
Etymology: < hog n.1 + stag n.1 Compare earlier hog deer n.
Obsolete. rare.
Perhaps: the hog deer, Axis porcinus.Smellie was not convinced that Buffon's hog-stag (quot. 1780) was the same as Pennant's hog deer (quot. 1771 at hog deer n. 1b), but subsequent writers equated the two.
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1780 W. Smellie tr. Comte de Buffon Nat. Hist. Gen. & Particular IV. 111 I have seen..a small kind of stag, which was said to have been brought from the Cape of Good Hope... It was called the Hog-stag, because its legs were thicker, and it had not the agility of body as the common kind.
1816 Encycl. Perthensis (ed. 2) V. 190/1 Cervus Porcinus maculatus, the spoted [sic] Porcine Deer, or Hog Stag of Buffon.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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