hogritude

plural hogritudes

1. countableuncountableThe essence and condition of being a pig.First known use 20th c.

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   There is, Lord knows, a veritable plethora of things people see and don't see in pigs. Those artists and creative individuals who manage to open their eves to the sunburst brightness of hogritude— and all that it connotes and conveys to us of the elemental urgencies of the earth— tend to glimpse such a shattering enormity of Truth and What's Real that they are usually forced to translate their perceptions into the form of fantasy, with hogs as the fantasy objects.

   1978, William Hedgepeth, The Hog Book, Doubleday, page 118

   From the Hog Wild! store in Boston’s Faneuil Hall Market Place to three Hogography gift shops in Arkansas to the Hogs & Kisses emporium in San Francisco, retailers’ shelves are packed with greeting cards, books, posters, clothes, games, stuffed toys, jewelry, office accessories (oink-wells), bumper stickers (HAVE YOU HUGGED YOUR PIG TODAY?) and sundry objets d'art celebrating hogritude.

   1982, Michael Demarest, “Getting High on the Hog”, in Times, page 181