hog-likeadj.adv.

1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique vii. xxxvi. 863 The hoglike brocks are whitish, and haue the haire aboue their noses and vnder their throats a great deale more white then the doglike haue.

1673 J. Ogilby tr. J. Nieuhof Embassy E.-India Company (ed. 2) I. 238 This Caiman has a broad Forehead, and a Hog-like Snout, with a very wide Mouth.

1749 W. Ellis Compl. Syst. Improvem. Sheep i. viii. 108 They are easily known from any other Mouse by their blackish Colour, Hog-like Head, and their little Tail.

1771 T. Pennant Synopsis Quadrupeds 77 In his account of the monoceros, he exactly describes the great black horn and the hog-like tail.

1800 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. I. 21 Short-tailed brown Baboon..with black naked hog-like face.

1849 Sketches Nat. Hist.: Mammalia III. 64 This animal is hog-like in its figure.

1880 W. B. Dawkins Early Man in Brit. iii. 42 They have furnished the remains of a small hoglike animal, Hyopotamus bovinus.

1936 Condor 38 193 Generally we become aware of their return by hearing their hoarse, hog-like calls.

1945 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 51 30/1 A man complained about the diet and at the same time ate in a hoglike manner.

1978 J. A. Maxwell America's Fascinating Indian Heritage vi. 205/1 Small hoglike peccaries live here, together with Abert squirrels.

2004 D. Keister Stories in Stone 73 Certain humans are prone to hog-like behavior.

1616 T. Scot 2nd Pt. Philomythie sig. C^v Scorning Hog-like to doe good so late.

1711 E. Ward Life Don Quixote II. xxvii. 66 Yet wanting strength was forc'd to lye, And battle Hog like, in his Sty.

1806 T. Holcroft Tales in Verse I. x. 172 Drunkard and Glutton! I really hate 'em!.. Give them troughs, hog like... I'm greatly wrong if they would underrate 'em.

1887 G. Meredith Ballads & Poems 60 Still he heard, and doglike, hoglike, ran.

1920 Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 200 253 The chin was stretched, hog-like, on the mud.

2000 Washington Post (Nexis) 28 May (Mag.) 6 Penned, hoglike, in seats so close together that what we would like, even more than complimentary headsets, is a complimentary snorkel to allow us to breathe.