Word: hogged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hog...
...TIME, July 20, p. 55, col. 1, "Hatter's Castle," is the locution "independent as a hog...
...raised on a farm in a cold climate would use such a simile. Far from being independent, a hog "on ice" is the most helpless of creatures...
...hog TIME had in mind was dead...
...Scotch town of Levenford, James Brodie, hatter, independent as a hog on ice, was considered an outstanding citizen, considered himself preeminent. That he was merely a hatter was a source of amusement to him; his business had brought him comfort but he thought it far beneath him. Brodie had built himself a house the town wondered at: too small for a castle, too grand for a small house. But no one laughed at Brodie to his face. A bull of a man. he had a bull's temper, a bull's disregard of neighbors' china-shops. Brutal...