Definition of Hoghood

1. the nature of a hog [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hoghood

hoggets
hoggin
hogginess
hoggings
hoggins
hoggish
hoggishly
hoggishness
hoggishnesses
hoggs
hoggy
hogh
hogherd
hogherds
hoghood (current term)
hoghoods
hoghs
hogleg
hoglegs
hoglet
hoglets
hoglike
hogmanays
hogmane
hogmanes
hogmenay
hogmenays
hognose
hognose bat

Literary usage of Hoghood

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"... and hoghood; — the remote Var Department has now sent him hither. A man of heat and haste; defective in utterance; defective indeed in anything to utter ..."

2. A Winter in the West by Charles Fenno Hoffman (1835)
"... that was but one minute before grunting in the full enjoyment of bristling hoghood, now cadaverous and " chap- fallen," hangs a stark and naked effigy ..."

3. The Monthly Review by Charles William Wason (1835)
"... that was but one minute before grunting in the full enjoyment of bristling hoghood, now cadaverous and ' chap-fallen,' hangs aa stark and naked effigy ..."

4. The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle (1908)
"... and hoghood;—the remote Var Department has now sent him hither. A man of heat and haste; defective in utterance; defective indeed in any thing to utter; ..."

5. A Supplementary English Glossary by Thomas Lewis Owen Davies (1881)
"Many a Circe island with temporary enchantment, temporary conversion into beatt- hood and hoghood. ..."

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