English

hoghead

From hog + head.

A compound of hog + head

Middle English hog ‘a pig or swine, especially one that is…’

English hog

Proto-Indo-European *kap- ‘head’

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Proto-Germanic *haubudą ‘head’

Proto-West Germanic *haubud

Old English hēafod ‘head’

Middle English heed ‘head’

English head

Today it means

noun Synonym of hogger (“engineer of a locomotive”).

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.