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hogless

hogless adjective: without hogs.

Adjective

hogless (not comparable)

  1. Without hogs.
    • As she puts it, "The flat green world of my parents' hogless, horseless farm – its dullness, its flies, its quiet ripped open daily by the fumes and whining of machinery – twisted away and left me with a brilliant city life of books and films and witty friends."2009 September 6, Barbara Carey, “The trials of mid-America”, in Toronto Star, archived from the original on 11 Sep 2009

Origin of hogless

From hog + -less.

Questions about hogless

What does hogless mean?
Hogless means without hogs.
What part of speech is hogless?
Hogless is an adjective.

Words near hogless in the dictionary

  1. Hogle
  2. hogleg
  3. hoglegs
  4. Hoglen
  5. Hogles
  6. hogless
  7. hoglet
  8. hoglets
  9. hoglike
  10. hogling
  11. hoglings

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