pig-huntn.
/ˈpɪɡhʌnt/, U.S. /ˈpɪɡˌ(h)ənt/ A hunt for wild pigs; a competition to catch a pig.
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1793 Times 31 Aug. 3/3 We had..the following elegant sports: A Donkey Race, on which there was much betting—a Pig Hunt—men grinning through horse collars, and running in sacks.
1852 L. B. Mackinnon Atlantic & Transatlantic 286 During our pig-hunt we were tantalized every moment by a clownish penguin.
1881 Appletons' Jrnl. July 79/1 As an illustration of a comic dance [in Fiji], I may mention a pantomime representing a pig-hunt.
1961 J. Reid Kiwi Laughs 9 The misfortunes of that pig-hunt which is an almost indispensable episode in fiction or memoirs.
1994 Jrnl. Black Stud. 25 211 She picks up the gun that she had stolen for a pig hunt and shoots at a male canecutter.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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