Skip to main content
Glite Dictionary
🛢️ A large barrel 😠 A rude person 🐷 A pig's head
hoghead

hoghead

9.9
The head of a pig prepared and served as food
  • noun
  • /ˈhɔɡˌhɛd/
  • Archaic
translation icon : cabeza de cerdo
  • The chef prepared a traditional dish using a hoghead for the holiday meal.

Examples

  • The chef served a delicious hoghead at the feast.

  • Locals gathered to share the hoghead during the annual harvest festival.

  • At the country fair, they displayed a roasted hoghead as part of the celebration.

  • We had a hoghead for dinner last night.

  • At the country fair, they displayed a roasted hoghead as part of the celebration.

  • The chef prepared a traditional dish using a hoghead for the holiday meal.

  • Locals gathered to share the hoghead during the annual harvest festival.

Synonyms

pork
vshoghead
342 1.0

The meat from a pig that people eat

is the animal skull specifically prepared or served rather than general meat
headcheese
vshoghead
1 9.9

A cold meat loaf made from a pig's or calf's head

is the whole animal skull prepared or served as food rather than processed

Surface Forms

hoghead singular
hogheads plural

Morphology

hoghead = hog + head (transparent) = hog + head

This is a straightforward compound meaning the head of a hog, with the parts contributing their literal meanings.

Etymology

Hoghead can also be simply the head of a hog, with head 'head' meaning the animal's skull and face, often prepared as food for a feast. So hoghead can refer to the pig's head when it is served or shown at a meal.