hog age
hog age noun: the period of adolescence.
Noun
hog age (usually uncountable, plural hog ages)
- The period of adolescence.
- The misfortune is that little men are uniformly great in their own estimation, and they cannot see that the rights of others and the law stand in their way sometimes. Little men get cured of those elevated notions, as little boys get cured of the hog age.1882 August 24, Bangor Daily Whig and Courier, volume XLIX, number 200, Bangor, Me.: Boutelle & Burr, page [2], column 4
- The best proof of this is that a great many girls of fourteen or fifteen are just at a period of intense, almost morbid, moral development, whereas boys at that time of life are commonly in what is known as the "hog age".1916, Walter Swain Hinchman, The American School, A Study of Secondary Education, page 127
Examples of hog age in a sentence
- This had increased during her teens, even though that was the daughter's "hog age," as her mother termed it.1952, John McKendree Springer, I Love the Trail, A Sketch of the Life of Helen Emily Springer, page 29:
- Hog age refers to male adolescence, that awkward time between boyhood and manhood.[2000, Sara Rath, The Complete Pig, An Entertaining History of Pigs of the World, page 74:
Forms of hog age
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Questions about hog age
- What does hog age mean?
- Hog age means the period of adolescence.
- How do you use hog age in a sentence?
- This had increased during her teens, even though that was the daughter's "hog age," as her mother termed it.
- What part of speech is hog age?
- Hog age is a noun.
- What is the plural of hog age?
- The plural of hog age is hog ages.
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