totus porcus

English

Adverb

totus porcus (comparative more totus porcus, superlative most totus porcus)

1. (idiomatic) Completely; unreservedly: swallowed the official version totus porcus.
2. (slang) Fake Latin meaning whole hog (see go whole hog).

References

• "The media swallowed it totus porcus – whole hog", by John Maxwell in 2005 in his political blog.

• "But we had best discover why it was our forefathers, who created this country, rejected, totus porcus, the nonsense we spout today about egalitarianism and globaloney." by Patrick Buchanan in May 2007.

• "Or will we be like the Gadarene swine, that pathetic example of totus porcus–going whole hog–after the trends of the moment?" by by Neal A. Maxwell from a “fireside address” given at Brigham Young University on 5 September 1982.

• "As a founding principle of our trip, Margaret and I decided that if we were going to go, we would go whole hog, totus porcus, super deluxe all the way" by Michael Korda published in the New York Times Travel section 25 February 1996.

• "When I finally decided to go in, I went in whole hog, totus porcus" - Winston Churchill, Testimony to the Dardanelles Commission. D'Este, Carlo. Warlord, HarperCollins Publishers, 2008.