hog
noun
a hoofed mammal of the Old World family Suidae, order Artiodactyla, comprising boars and swine.
hoglike
-
a word derived from
hog.
Example Sentences
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Anyway, on Monday, Beastly Week ventures closer to home with “The Hunt for Hogzilla,” about a legendary hoglike beast in the Carolinas.
From New York Times ● Oct. 24, 2014
Young ones could be stuffed with corn and bananas and brought to a hoglike fatness.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was dense with living creatures, larvae, horrible shapes with waving tendrils, white withered things restless and famished, hoglike faces, monstrosities.
From AE in the Irish Theosophist by George William Russell
His eyes, as they fell upon his visitor, were hoglike, nearly buried in sallow folds of skin.
From Kid Wolf of Texas by Paul S. (Paul Sylvester) Powers
Doglike, hoglike, horselike now he raced, Riderless, in ghost across a ground Flint of breast, blank-faced, Past the fleshly bound.
From Poems — Volume 2 by George Meredith
