hog age

English

Noun

hog age (usually uncountable, plural hog ages)

  1. (dated, US, informal) The period of adolescence.
    • 1882 August 24, Bangor Daily Whig and Courier, volume XLIX, number 200, Bangor, Me.: Boutelle & Burr, page [2], column 4:
      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.
    • 1916, Walter Swain Hinchman, The American School, A Study of Secondary Education, page 127:
      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".
    • 1952, John McKendree Springer, I Love the Trail, A Sketch of the Life of Helen Emily Springer, page 29:
      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.
    • [1963, Barbara K. Walker (editor), The Erie Canal, Gateway to Empire, page 99:
      Hog-age was the period between boyhood and manhood.]
    • [2000, Sara Rath, The Complete Pig, An Entertaining History of Pigs of the World, page 74:
      Hog age refers to male adolescence, that awkward time between boyhood and manhood.]
    • 2007, Bob Gebelein, The Mental Environment (mostly about Mind Pollution), page 114:
      Psychological-age-16: "The hog-age." Boy thinks he knows everything, writes his philosophy.

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