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pighood en · NOUN

Etymology

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

Meanings

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