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driving one's pigs to market

driving one's pigs to market is the present participle and gerund 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 driving one's pigs to market the present participle and gerund of?
Driving one's pigs to market is the present participle and gerund of drive one's pigs to market.

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

  1. driving moccasin
  2. driving moccasins
  3. driving motor
  4. driving motors
  5. driving off
  6. driving one's pigs to market
  7. driving out
  8. driving permit
  9. driving permits
  10. driving rain
  11. driving range

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