Idiom question

[Bob Fitzke]

An old saying around my part of Michigan describes the male of the species,
"Useless as tits on a boar-hog".

Bob

Bob Haas wrote:

> No, hogs is pigs, just pigs.  Usually big pigs.  Nuthin' about the sex.
>
> > From: Greg Austin <PorchGreg at AOL.COM>
> > Reply-To: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> > Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 21:31:38 EST
> > To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> > Subject: Re: Idiom question
> >
> > << I don't know of a special term off the top of my head for he-pig >>
> >
> > I'm not an expert but isn't that a hog?