† hogherd Obs.
(ˈhɒghəd)
[f. hog n.1 + herd n.2]
A swineherd.
| c 1380 Wyclif Wks. (1880) 149 To..fle in-to an hogherdis office. 1382 Pol. Poems (Rolls) I. 269 As it were an hog⁓ hyerd hyand to toun. 1562 J. Heywood Prov. & Epigr. (1867) 214 Where hogis be parishioners, hogherd must be best. a 1704 T. Brown 2 Oxford Schol. Wks. 1730 I. 9 A wonderful encouragement indeed 'tis for a man to turn Country Parson! May I rather be a Hogherd. |