Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A peculiar kind of irregular surface, when the clayey soil is broken up by a series of hillocks and hollows closely succeeding one another.
Examples
“Thanksgiving is over, and that means one thing ... time for the hog-wallow, hard-to-swallow, flee-or-follow debacle known as Christmas!”
“It managed to look like a hog-wallow in spite of the built-in appliances and the stainless steel walls; the Grays were apparently not much interested in housekeeping.”
“It is impossible to imagine the austere Puritan divines of Massachusetts inventing such verbs as to cowhide and to logroll, or such adjectives as no-account and stumped, or such adverbs as no-how and lickety-split, or such substantives as bull-frog, hog-wallow and hoe-cake; but under their eyes there arose a contumacious proletariat which was quite capable of the business, and very eager for it.”
Chapter 2. The Beginnings of American. 3. New Words of English Material
“Pay-dirt, panel-house, passage-way, patrolman, night-rider, low-down, know-nothing, hoe-cake and hog-wallow are equally compounded of pure English metal, and yet he lists all of them.”
“There have been times when the sight of Harvey's name in some Eastern paper has made me hang my head like a whipped dog; and, again, times when I liked to think of him off there in the world, away from all this hog-wallow, climbing the big, clean up-grade he'd set for himself.”
“Eastern paper has made me hang my head like a whipped dog; and, again, times when I liked to think of him off there in the world, away from all this hog-wallow, climbing the big, clean up-grade he'd set for himself.”
“The part that confronted our squad was a hog-wallow below a pig pen and nicely full of water from the rain.”
“One afternoon, while they were riding through a dense mesquite flat, they came upon a patch of open hog-wallow prairie.”
“In a big hog-wallow lay the skeletons of three Mexicans.”
“Along the ridge of the hog-wallow rested the rusting Winchesters of the Mexicans -- all pointing in the same direction.”
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