THORN-HOG

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ETYMOLOGY
from Middle English thornhog, equivalent to thorn +‎ hog.

EXAMPLE
From: Dan Michel's Ayenbite of Inwyt,
Or, Remorse of Conscience,
In the Kentish Dialect, 1340 A.D.
Edited by Richard Morris, 1866
The Seven Boughs of Strife