hawg
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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After that start," said Snead in his corn-pone drawl, "ah thought unless Burkemo goes hawg wile, ah'd be O.K.
From Time Magazine Archive
This truck ride bothers him, just the same, for as the hired man said, "No hawg is ever pleased."
From Time Magazine Archive
Hulking Representative Jimmy Dykes, the ex-black-marketeer who had likened former Governor Ellis Arnall to a "hawg," bellowed: "We'll get a court of our own."
From Time Magazine Archive
Her heart, however, does wheelies for him only when he dresses up as a mysteriously masked motorcyclist, a sort of Lone Ranger on a hawg.
From Time Magazine Archive
“B’lieve Ah done cut uh hawg, so Ah guess Ah better ketch air.”
From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston
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