Yeah, that puzzled me, I thought that is what it literally meant and it must be an idiom I hadn't encountered. To housebreak or housetrain is stubenrein machen; housebroken is stubenrein or sauber. But Verhausschweinen means just what it sounds like, huh? Go figure. Can you give a context in which you'd use it? I know several people who've had house pigs -- Vietnamese pot-bellied pigs, awful creatures. I'd even rather live with a teenager. ;->
--- Angelus Novus <fuerdenkommunismus at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Doug Henwood:
>
> > Housetrained?
>
>
> In terms of meaning, yes, something equivalent to
> housetrained.
>
> But in a literal sense, a "Hausschwein" is a
> domestic
> pig. "Verhausschweinen" would therefore be to make
> a
> domestic pig of something.
>
>
>
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