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A dog bred to hunt wild pigs, typically based on breeds such as Staffordshire Terrier and English Bull Terrier.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, New-Zealand
Examples
- 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.
- 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.
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Synonyms: swinehound
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A contemptible or worthless person.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: typically in representations of German speech
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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).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, sports, surfing
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To surf in the pig dog stance.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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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).
