swinehoodn.
/ˈswʌɪnhʊd/, U.S. /ˈswaɪnˌhʊd/ 1. Pigs collectively. Also figurative: coarse, degraded, or uncivilized people considered collectively; cf. swine n. 2b.
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the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > offensiveness > offensive person > [noun] > plural
vermin1562
verminaille1600
swinehood1797
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > pig > [noun] > collectively
swineOE
porkery1439
swinehood1797
piggery1851
hoggery1856
1797 Pennyworth Politics 6 Indeed 'twere rude To ask an answer to the multitude, That aggregate of swine-hood, that vile grunting brute.
1866 Leeds Mercury 29 Sept. 4/6 Let us have manhood suffrage, womanhood suffrage, childhood suffrage, horsehood suffrage, but do let us for the present be saved from swinehood suffrage.
1908 Aldersgate Primitive Methodist Mag. Dec. 960/2 I always know my mind; a crowd never does... It is a mass of senseless, blear-eyed, hateful swinehood.
2005 Ethics & Environment 10 28 We are not on the highest ladder of evolution having absorbed the capacities of other animals, and therefore master of both ‘swinehood’ and humanity, but are our own creatures.
2. The condition of being a pig. Also figurative: the condition of being coarse, degraded, uncivilized, or (more generally) objectionable.
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the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > sensuality > [noun] > animal sensuality > swinish quality or behaviour
hoggishness1614
hoggism1786
swinishness1791
swinehood1822
hoggery1834
swinery1846
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > [noun] > group Suiformes (hippos and pigs) > family Suidae (swine) > condition of being
swinehood1822
1822 C. Lamb in London Mag. Sept. 247/1 The grossness and indocility which too often accompany maturer swinehood.
1886 M. Burt Browning's Women (1887) 164 Elvire..sees only the swinehood that hath no remedy.
1971 Encounter Aug. 70/2 Moly is..the magical herb with a milk-white flower which Hermes gave to Odysseus and with which he changed himself back from swinehood.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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