hog age
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.56 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The misfortune is that little men are uniformly great in their own estimation, and they cannot see that the rights of others and the law stand in their way sometimes. Little men get cured of those elevated notions, as little boys get cured of the hog age."
- "The best proof of this is that a great many girls of fourteen or fifteen are just at a period of intense, almost morbid, moral development, whereas boys at that time of life are commonly in what is known as the "hog age"."
- "A strong affection naturally had existed between Helen and her mother from her childhood on. This had increased during her teens, even though that was the daughter's "hog age," as her mother termed it."
- "Hog-age was the period between boyhood and manhood."
- "Hog age refers to male adolescence, that awkward time between boyhood and manhood."
- "Psychological-age-16: "The hog-age." Boy thinks he knows everything, writes his philosophy."
Usage
- American usage
- Dated
- Informal
- Uncountable