pighood

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

pig +‎ -hood. Attested since the 19th century.

Noun[edit]

pighood (uncountable)

  1. The state of being a pig.
    • 1837, Capel Lofft, Self-formation, volume 1, page 72:
      The people had become readers; the swinish multitude fashioned into a sort of sapient pighood.