Pighood

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The state of being a pig. uncountable

    "The people had become readers; the swinish multitude fashioned into a sort of sapient pighood."

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"The people had become readers; the swinish multitude fashioned into a sort of sapient pighood."

Etymology

From pig + -hood. Attested since the 19th century.

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