单词 | hog-necked |
释义 | > as lemmashog-necked c. Parasynthetic, as hog-buttocked, hog-faced, hog-necked, etc. Cf. hog-backed adj. ΚΠ 1640 (title) A certaine Relation of the Hog-faced Gentlewoman called Mistris Tannakin Skinker. 1692 London Gaz. No. 2730/4 A thin Horse, Hog Buttock'd. 1793 T. Holcroft tr. J. C. Lavater Ess. Physiognomy (abridged ed.) xl. 212 Horses are divided into..the swan-necked, the stag-necked and the hog-necked. 1843 R. H. Horne Orion i. iii. 32 A brutish clod, half built, Hog-faced and hog-backed with his daily toil. 1846 W. M. Thackeray Notes Journey Cornhill to Cairo xii. 109 He rode a hog-necked grey Arab, bristling over with harness, and jumped, and whirled, and reared, and halted, to the admiration of all. 1907 Washington Post 27 Sept. 6/6 The hog-faced snails..crawl over their beds and tables and scour every corner of the house making the dwellers miserable. a1938 T. Wolfe Web & Rock (1939) vii. xlviii. 677 That brutal scorner with contemptuous tongue, that hog-necked contemner with the butcher's thumb—was wrong! 2000 Booklist (Nexis) 1 June 1825 One story has it that a hog-faced infant was born that way because her wealthy mother, when pregnant, unkindly refused alms to a beggar who then shrieked out a curse. < as lemmas |
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