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hog meat noun Pork. [DARE labels this term “South, South Midland”]

1862 Lister CW Letters (Dec 19) we have a mong us yet a bout 75 pounds of hog meat that we brout from home. 1921 Weeks Speech of KY Mtneer 9 We don’t often indulge in the luxury of eating pork in the mountains. After you have met on a Sunday afternoon ramble, a Kentucky porker ranging at large over the hills, or stumbled over him as he sleeps in the streets at night, you are convinced that hog meat is refined enough as a name for the marketable portions of the razorback. 1939 Hall Coll (Emerts Cove TN) [Squirrel] tastes similar to hog meat. 1976 Garber Mountain-ese 42 = fresh pork. 1997 Ownby Big Greenbrier I:20 She kept the fats from the hog meat, which she put with for the lye, boiling it with the big iron kettle until it was thick enough for soap.

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