hog waller
See also: hogwaller
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From hog + waller (pig bed), akin to hog island and hog town, late 19th century. It appears to have developed as a portrayal of some parts of the American rural South no later than 1915, when a syndicated column called The Hogwallow News can be documented as running in some American newspapers.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]hog waller (plural hog wallers)
- (slang, US, derogatory) Any poor town or out-of-the-way place that is populated by hillbillies and their farm animals.
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[edit]References
[edit]- hog waller; hog island, Cassell's Dictionary of Slang, by Jonathon Green, 2nd edition, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.: 2005, →ISBN.
- Sorensen, Adam (2007 November 29) “Where's the pork? The rise and fall of the Hogwaller name”, in The Hook (newspaper)[1], Charlottesville, archived from the original on 29 February 2008* '