pig dog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pig dogs
form: pigdog
form: pig-dog
Etymology: 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).
Senses: examples: text: 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.
ref: 1908, Edward Jerningham Wakefield, Robert Stout, Adventure in New Zealand from 1839 to 1844, published 2010, page 350:
text: 1961, Royal Society of New Zealand, Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand: Zoology, Volume 2, page 221,
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.
text: These so-called ‘pig dogs’ chase after the wild pigs, often through rough terrain, and bring them down so that the following hunter can shoot the quarry. There is normally more than one dog involved in the hunt. The pig dogs tend to be powerful crossbreds with Great Dane, Bull Mastiff and/or Pit Bull Terrier blood and sometimes with a dash of Irish Wolfhound or Scottish Deerhound to give them more speed and height.
ref: 2009, Jane Duckworth, Not Every Dog Has His Day: The Treatment of Dogs in Australia, page 162:
text: 2009, Evan McHugh, Birdsville, Penguin Group, EasyRead Large Edition, page 139,
Zeus was Ben′s pig dog, an Irish wolfhound crossed with other breeds of hunting dog.
synonyms: swinehound
glosses: A dog bred to hunt wild pigs, typically based on breeds such as Staffordshire Terrier and English Bull Terrier.
examples: text: He proceeded to call Heyst many names, of which ‘pig-dog’ was not the worst, with such vehemence that he actually choked himself.
ref: 1915, Joseph Conrad, Victory: An island tale, Penguin Classics, published 1995, →ISBN, page 95:
text: To der pig-dog Lord Snooty from der Great Adolf Hitler.
ref: 1941 March 8, Lord Snooty, The Beano:
text: You don't frighten us, English pig-dogs! Go and boil your bottoms, sons of a silly person.
ref: 1975, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, Monty Python and the Holy Grail (motion picture), spoken by French Taunter (John Cleese):
qualifier: typically in representations of German speech
glosses: A contemptible or worthless person.
examples: text: 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 just behind the outside rail just somewhere near your forward foot. Now look at yourself and you will know why it is called a ‘pig-dog’.
ref: 2008, Peter Diel, Eric Menges, Surfing: In Search of the Perfect Wave, page 99:
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glosses: 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).
Related terms: hog-dogging