hog-whimpering

hog-whimpering
adj
British
a.
abject, bestial, helpless
b.
abjectly or bestially drunk
► Old Ollie was absolutely hog-whimpering last night.
A colourful term popular among Sloane Rangers in Britain from the mid-1970s. The word is probably an original public-school or army coinage, but may echo the many now obsolete slang terms containing the word 'hog' that invoke wallowing, snorting and other excessive behaviour: expressions such as hog-wild, 'hog-rub-ber' (a peasant), 'hog-fat' (a slovenly per-son), etc.

Contemporary slang . 2014.

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