A March Hog needs no cleaning. Springtime hogs want to be out on an adventure.
Not hot tubs, but a dig in de porridge trough and a roll in the mud.
Earthy definitions..... you can dig your burrow down to the deepest essence, muffle a word, plant a tree, climb a mountain, fill up a hole in the the road and have a sturdy meal or a stout drink. Build your Chapel.

......................Pick and choose and beware of quicksands.

*Voting till Monday 21. Open to submitters, subscribers, invisibles, guests and spiders.*


a) archaic Scots term for whole oats cooked with beer and butter.


b) a patch of quicksand (or similar) between the hillocks of swamp.


c) a drink made with water or "small beer" and rum, which was introduced into the Royal Navy in 1740. Pronounced grog


d) a geological land feature formed by an oceanic eddy; when the sea level recedes the depression left behind is termed a grough


e) to speak a muffled word into ones hand as if to cough.


f) to plant something again or in a new place


g) a small burrowing North American marsupial, related to the opossum


h) (pronounced "grok")-to understand thoroughy and completely, to the deepest essence. A Martian word, coined by Robert Heinlein in Stranger in a Strange Land; it became a cult word in the Science Fiction world in the 1960s.


i) mounteneering a natural channel or fissure in a peat moor; a peat hag


j)a road surface marked with potholes


k)a method of stone construction which produces a vaulted ceiling.

j) a road surface marked with potholes

if this isn't it, I'm adopting it right now for our road surfaces

I'll take d) a geological land feature formed by an oceanic eddy; when the sea level recedes the depression left behind is termed a grough, if I may.

I'm for "B" quicksand sounds like the word when it sucks
something up.

A for me.

I'll take k) a method of stone construction which produces a vaulted ceiling.

(from the same people who brought you "coign")

Chalk up another one for A

I do like marsupials, but F is lovely. so, F.

gee Buff I'll take it then! I like small burrowing animals and possums. G for C

hmmm...I'm stuck between I and D...and B...oh this is so hard to choose! hmmm I think I'll go for...I...D...I...yes I vote for I

J for me

E

I will say, grough (growff) is how I felt, trying to decide on the real def.!

Have a tumbler or two of the definition c)(pron.grog) and all your pains will be forsaken.
All submitters + one hogmaster have voted. (good of you)
I don't expect a wild bunch of random voters will add much to it, so in the weekend I will set the Hog free with blessings to go wherever the long and muddy road will take'm.

Very difficult to decide.

I used to eat the New Jersey version of a) after work, in my early 20s, when I worked 3rd shift; Ballantine Ale over Cap'n Crunch. I might have had a glass of c)-like liquid later in the day when the sun was over the yardarm.

However, I think it's i).

Excuse me for not being able to count beyond 10. Of course, your vote was still missing.

Are the polls officially closed yet? Because I want to say what I would have voted for if it hadn't been for...

The fact that you knew the answer? Fire away. Not closed yet. You may even change if your reason is valid.

Nope. I don't know the definition. I'm not going to say anything until the polls are closed. I don't want to deter anyone from voting for an otherwise fine definition.

Come on then Faldage.....vote then.

Good. Polls are closed. Results in about 10 to 12 hours.

I already voted once. What is this, early and often?

OK. Polls are closed. I would have voted for I if mountaineering had been spelled right.

heh. blame it on Bran's (olde?) dictionary.

grough [grʌf]
n
(Earth Sciences / Physical Geography) Mountaineering a natural channel or fissure in a peat moor; a peat hag
[possibly the same as grough, an obsolete variant of gruff in the obsolete sense: "rough" (of terrain)]

Collins English Dictionary

Thank you for your patience. And thanks for letting me know 'timely'. I must have had a blind spot for that syllable. Can I offer an extra point to Faldage for detecting the error (even though points don't matter ?)
( I think I need glasses)