Definition of Hoglike

1. Adjective. Resembling a hog or some aspect of one; piglike. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Hoglike

1. hoggish [adj] - See also: hoggish

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hoglike

hoggishly
hoggishness
hoggishnesses
hoggs
hoggy
hogh
hogherd
hogherds
hoghood
hoghoods
hoghs
hogleg
hoglegs
hoglet
hoglets
hoglike (current term)
hogmanays
hogmane
hogmanes
hogmenay
hogmenays
hognose
hognose bat
hognose snake
hognose snakes
hognosed skunk
hognoses
hognosesnake
hognut
hognuts

Literary usage of Hoglike

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Pre-Raphaelite and Other Poets: Lectures by Lafcadio Hearn (1922)
"Still he heard, and doglike, hoglike, ran Nose of hearing till his blind ... XII Doglike, hoglike, horselike now he raced, Riderless, in ghost across a ..."

2. The Works of George Meredith by George Meredith (1910)
"x Still he heard, and doglike, hoglike, ran Nose of hearing till his blind ... XII Doglike, hoglike, horselike now he raced, Riderless, in ghost across a ..."

3. The Journal of a Naturalist by John Leonard Knapp (1829)
"... presents an extraordinary hedge- hoglike appearance. The first adoption of this purely rural fancy, and its designation, I am perfectly unacquainted ..."

4. The Lower Amazon: A Narrative of Explorations in the Little Known Regions of by Algot Lange (1914)
"Half-way to the teso I come to a pool about the size of a large room. A hoglike animal rushes into the water when I approach. ..."

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