Home › Words › P › pighoodpighoodpighood means the state of being a pig.EtymologyFrom pig + -hood. Attested since the 19th century.nounThe state of being a pig.e.g.“The people had become readers; the swinish multitude fashioned into a sort of sapient pighood.” — 1837, Capel Lofft, Self-formation, volume 1, page 72:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).