hogshipn.
/ˈhɒɡʃɪp/, U.S. /ˈhɔɡˌʃɪp/, /ˈhɑɡˌʃɪp/ humorous. Now rare.
With preceding possessive adjective: a mock title of respect given to a hog, or to a person likened to a hog.
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1689 G. Harvey Art of curing Dis. by Expectation xviii. 141 Unless his Physick Hogship by a tautology of Compounds intends to puzzle the Apothecary, and impose on his Opinion, there is a mystery in composition, which shall limit his attempt of imitating the Physician.
1839 Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pa.) 30 Apr. 2/1 His hog ship will show himself daily, from 8 A. M. to 6 P. M. when he will remove to New York, and gratify the curious of the Commercial Metropolis.
1860 Mercantile Marine Mag. 7 295 Sacrifices were offered to his hogship [sc. a half-hog deity].
1909 E. Albright Early Hist. Middle Tennessee xxviii. 197 The next morning found his hog-ship dressed, quartered, and distributed among several mess parties about the camp.
1938 W. H. Hamilton Dakota in S. Dakota Hist. Coll. (1941) 29 iv. 546 After I could see..I succeeded in getting ‘His Hog ship’ out and the front door shut.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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