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hogherd
English
Alternative forms
- hoggard
Etymology
hog +? herd
Noun
hogherd (plural hogherds)
- A person who looks after pigs; a swineherd.
Related terms
- bearherd
- cowherd
- goatherd
- gooseherd
- herd
- herder
- herding dog
- herd instinct
- herdsman
- Herdsman (the constellation Boötes)
- herdswoman
- horseherd
- neatherd
- oxherd
- shepherd
- swanherd
- swineherd
Translations
References
- hogherd in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914) , “hogherd”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, volume II, revised edition, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., OCLC 1078064371.
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herd
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /h??d/
- (General American) IPA(key): /h?d/
- Rhymes: -??(?)d
- Homophone: heard
Etymology 1
From Middle English herde, heerde, heorde, from Old English hierd, heord (“herd, flock; keeping, care, custody”), from Proto-Germanic *herd? (“herd”), from Proto-Indo-European *?erd?- (“file, row, herd”). Cognate with German Herde, Swedish hjord. Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian herdhe (“nest”) and Serbo-Croatian krdo.
Noun
herd (plural herds)
- A number of domestic animals assembled together under the watch or ownership of a keeper. [from 11th c.]
- 1768, Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard,
- The lowing herd wind slowly o’er the lea.
- 1768, Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard,
- Any collection of animals gathered or travelling in a company. [from 13th c.]
- 2007, J. Michael Fay, Ivory Wars: Last Stand in Zakouma, National Geographic (March 2007), 47,
- Zakouma is the last place on Earth where you can see more than a thousand elephants on the move in a single, compact herd.
- 2007, J. Michael Fay, Ivory Wars: Last Stand in Zakouma, National Geographic (March 2007), 47,
- (now usually derogatory) A crowd, a mass of people; now usually pejorative: a rabble. [from 15th c.]
- 1833, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Table Talk, 8 June 1833
- You can never interest the common herd in the abstract question.
- 1833, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Table Talk, 8 June 1833
Derived terms
- herd immunity
- herd instinct
Translations
Verb
herd (third-person singular simple present herds, present participle herding, simple past and past participle herded)
- (intransitive) To unite or associate in a herd; to feed or run together, or in company.
- Sheep herd on many hills.
- (transitive) To unite or associate in a herd
- (transitive) To manage, care for or guard a herd
- (intransitive) To associate; to ally oneself with, or place oneself among, a group or company.
- I’ll herd among his friends, and seem
One of the number.
- I’ll herd among his friends, and seem
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English herde, from Old English hirde, hierde, from Proto-West Germanic *hird?, from Proto-Germanic *hirdijaz. Cognate with German Hirte, Swedish herde, Danish hyrde.
Noun
herd (plural herds)
- (now rare) Someone who keeps a group of domestic animals; a herdsman.
- 2000, Alasdair Grey, The Book of Prefaces, Bloomsbury 2002, page 38:
- Any talent which gives a good new thing to others is a miracle, but commentators have thought it extra miraculous that England's first known poet was an illiterate herd.
- 2000, Alasdair Grey, The Book of Prefaces, Bloomsbury 2002, page 38:
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Verb
herd (third-person singular simple present herds, present participle herding, simple past and past participle herded)
- (intransitive, Scotland) To act as a herdsman or a shepherd.
- (transitive) To form or put into a herd.
- (transitive) To move or drive a herd.
Translations
See also
- Appendix:English collective nouns
- drove
- gather
- muster
- round up
- ride herd on
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
herd
- imperative of herde
Old High German
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *herþ.
Noun
herd m
- hearth
Descendants
- Middle High German: hert
- German: Herd
- Luxembourgish: Häerd
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