pig dog
pig dog noun: a dog bred to hunt wild pigs, typically based on breeds such as Staffordshire Terrier and English Bull Terrier.
Noun
pig dog (plural pig dogs)
- A dog bred to hunt wild pigs, typically based on breeds such as Staffordshire Terrier and English Bull Terrier.
- The pig-dogs are of rather a mongrel breed, partaking largely of the bull-dog, but mixed with the cross of mastiff and greyhound, which forms the New South Wales kangaroo-dog.1908, Edward Jerningham Wakefield, Robert Stout, Adventure in New Zealand from 1839 to 1844, published 2010, page 350
- Pig dogs have a have a particularly high incidence of E. granulosus and T. hydatigena compared with infections in farm gogs and [this] may be related to the eating of infected sheep carrion rather than wild pigs.1961, Royal Society of New Zealand, Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand: Zoology, Volume 2, page 221
- Synonyms:
- swinehound
- A contemptible or worthless person.
- He proceeded to call Heyst many names, of which ‘pig-dog’ was not the worst, with such vehemence that he actually choked himself.1915, Joseph Conrad, Victory: An island tale, Penguin Classics, published 1995, →ISBN, page 95
- To der pig-dog Lord Snooty from der Great Adolf Hitler.1941 March 8, Lord Snooty, The Beano
- A stance used for surfing tubes on one’s backhand. The surfer crouches low over a bent front knee, back leg extending back, outside hand holding onto the outside rail, and inside arm extended upwards touching the face of the wave as a guide (or digging in to slow down).
- The trick here is to do a so-called “pig-dog”. Standing sideways on your board with your back to the wave you will stall by twisting forward (in relation to the tip of your board) shoulder back, and using the arm belonging to it, drag your hand in the water. At the same time your rear hand grabs...2008, Peter Diel, Eric Menges, Surfing: In Search of the Perfect Wave, page 99
Verb
pig dog (third-person singular simple present pig dogs, present participle pig dogging, simple past and past participle pig dogged)
- To surf in the pig dog stance.
- Pig dogging from the take-off is easier than surfing along the wave, lining up a section, grabbing the rail and setting up the tube.2003, Taj Burrow, edited by Sam McIntosh, Taj Burrow’s Book of Hot Surfing, Rollingyouth Press, →ISBN, page 119
Synonyms of pig dog
Forms of pig dog
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | pig dogs |
| alternative form | pigdog |
| alternative form | pig-dog |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | pig dogs |
| present participle | pig dogging |
| past participle | pig dogged |
| past | pig dogged |
Origin of pig dog
In Sense 2, a calque of German Schweinehund. Taj Burrow offers two (perhaps fanciful) explanations for Sense 3: that surfers tend to assume a dog-like expression when in this stance (page 119) or that the stance is low and sturdy like a dog (glossary page 171).
Questions about pig dog
- What does pig dog mean?
- Pig dog means a dog bred to hunt wild pigs, typically based on breeds such as Staffordshire Terrier and English Bull Terrier.
- What part of speech is pig dog?
- Pig dog can be a noun or a verb.
- What is the plural of pig dog?
- The plural of pig dog is pig dogs.
Words near pig dog in the dictionary
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