pig dog

短语

发音

AU

词形变化

pig dogs 复数 pig dogs pig dogged pig dogging pig dogs 三单 pig dogging 现在分词 pig dogged 过去式 pig dogged 过去分词

别名

pigdog

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A dog bred to hunt wild pigs, typically based on breeds such as Staffordshire Terrier and English Bull Terrier.

    澳大利亚 新西兰

    1961, Royal Society of New Zealand, Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand: Zoology, Volume 2, page 221, Pig dogs have a have a particularly high incidence of E. granulosus and T. hydatigena compared with infections in farm gogs and [this] may be related to the eating of infected sheep carrion rather than wild pigs.

    2009, Evan McHugh, Birdsville, Penguin Group, EasyRead Large Edition, page 139, Zeus was Ben′s pig dog, an Irish wolfhound crossed with other breeds of hunting dog.

  2. 2.

    A contemptible or worthless person.

  3. 3.

    A stance used for surfing tubes on one’s backhand. The surfer crouches low over a bent front knee, back leg extending back, outside hand holding onto the outside rail, and inside arm extended upwards touching the face of the wave as a guide (or digging in to slow down).

    体育
v.
  1. 1.

    To surf in the pig dog stance.

词源

In Sense 2, a calque of German Schweinehund. Taj Burrow offers two (perhaps fanciful) explanations for Sense 3: that surfers tend to assume a dog-like expression when in this stance (page 119) or that the stance is low and sturdy like a dog (glossary page 171).

来源：wiktionary