#hogg

[deinocheirus]

Style meme for my dragons: part 1

You guys gave me too many good suggestions to stop at just one character.

[g63heavenonearth]

Allegheny Cemetery 7815-7

[tyger-land]

𝗦𝗮𝗺𝘂𝗲𝗹 𝗥. 𝗗𝗲𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘆 New York City, 1997.

[garethschweitzer]

Swedish translation of Samuel Delaney‘s Hogg

[cuttlehonk]

more hogg, featuring the man himself

[anglosaxonpersonalnames]

Hogg

Hogg is a short form of an Anglo-Saxon masculine name containing hogg (hog).

Variants:

Hocg [Robert Ferguson 1883 Surnames as a Science, page 100].

Hogg [Sir Allen Mawer & Sir Frank Stenton 1925 English Place-Name Society 2: 254].

Stump:

hogg, hocg = A hog [Northcote Toller 1882-1898 An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, page 556].

Evidence:

The place-name Hochestone, recorded in 1086, is believed to mean “Hogg’s farm” [Sir Allen Mawer & Sir Frank Stenton 1925 English Place-Name Society 2: 68].

[gunmemes]

Taaaaaang

[roughridingrednecks]

Who's up for some tag team action?