Meaning
A small, oval yellow wild fruit with a thin, tart-sweet flesh over a large stone, borne on a tree that grows wild in the bush and along gullies. Hog plums, so named because pigs relish the fallen fruit, are a nostalgic country treat — gathered off the ground in season, sucked for their sharp juice, and remembered fondly from childhood, even though there is more seed than flesh.
Examples
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Wi pick up hog plum unda di tree.
We picked up hog plums under the tree.
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Hog plum sour but wi love suck it.
Hog plums are sour but we love to suck them.
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More seed dan flesh inna di hog plum.
There's more seed than flesh in the hog plum.
Origin
From 'hog' (pigs eat the windfalls) + 'plum'; a tart wild fruit (Spondias). See [[june-plum]], [[guinep]].
How it’s used
A small tart yellow wild fruit; a nostalgic country treat. See [[june-plum]], [[guinep]].