Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A peculiar kind of irregular surface, when the clayey soil is broken up by a series of hillocks and hollows closely succeeding one another.
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Examples
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Thanksgiving is over, and that means one thing ... time for the hog-wallow, hard-to-swallow, flee-or-follow debacle known as Christmas!
The Great Christmas Giveaway Continues! Anne Johnson 2008
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Thanksgiving is over, and that means one thing ... time for the hog-wallow, hard-to-swallow, flee-or-follow debacle known as Christmas!
Archive 2008-12-01 Anne Johnson 2008
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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.
The Waste Lands King, Stephen, 1947- 1991
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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 Henry Louis 1921
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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.
Chapter 1. Introductory. 6. The Materials of the Inquiry Henry Louis 1921
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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.
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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.
Youth and the Bright Medusa Willa Sibert Cather 1910
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The part that confronted our squad was a hog-wallow below a pig pen and nicely full of water from the rain.
At Plattsburg Allen French 1908
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One afternoon, while they were riding through a dense mesquite flat, they came upon a patch of open hog-wallow prairie.
Sixes and Sevens O. Henry 1886
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In a big hog-wallow lay the skeletons of three Mexicans.
Sixes and Sevens O. Henry 1886
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