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driven one's pigs to market

driven one's pigs to market is the past participle of drive one's pigs to market.

Meaning of drive one's pigs to market

Verb

drive one's pigs to market (third-person singular simple present drives one's pigs to market, present participle driving one's pigs to market, simple past drove one's pigs to market, past participle driven one's pigs to market)

  1. (slang) To snore very loudly.
    • […] when he suddenly declared his intention of retiring to bed, which he immediately did, and in about ten minutes after he might have been heard "driving his pigs to market"—if the reader will allow the phrase.1868, Mary Chester, Memoirs of Madam Chester of Manchester, by herself, page 12

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What is driven one's pigs to market the past participle of?
Driven one's pigs to market is the past participle of drive one's pigs to market.

Words near driven one's pigs to market in the dictionary

  1. driven elements
  2. driven in
  3. driven into the ground
  4. driven it down
  5. driven off
  6. driven one's pigs to market
  7. driven out
  8. driven someone crazy
  9. driven someone insane
  10. driven someone mad
  11. driven someone nuts

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