hog

See also hög, and høg

English

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Etymology

From Middle English, from Old English hogg, hocg (“hog”), possibly from Old Norse hǫggva (“to strike, chop, cut”), from Proto-Germanic *hawwaną (“to hew, forge”), from Proto-Indo-European *kowə- (“to beat, hew, forge”). Cognate with Old High German houwan, Old Saxon hauwan, Old English hēawan (English hew). "Hog" originally meant a castrated male pig. (Compare "hoggett" for a castrated male sheep.) More at hew.

Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA: /hɒɡ/
• (US) IPA: /hɑɡ/, /hɔːɡ/

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• Rhymes: -ɒɡ

Noun

hog (plural hogs)

1. Any animal belonging to the Suidae family of mammals, especially the pig, the wart hog, and the boar.
2. A greedy person; one who refuses to share.
3. (slang) A large motorcycle, particularly a Harley-Davidson.

Derived terms

Terms derived from hog (noun)

hedgehog high on the hog hogcote hog-baying hog heaven hog island hog waller (hog wallow)

hog-wallowing hog-wild hog line hog maw hog-rubber hog town hogherd hoggish

hoggishly hoggy hogshead road hog sea hog whole hog, go whole hog

Translations

animal of the family Suidae

• Arabic: خنزير (ar) (xinzīr) m

  Egyptian Arabic: خنزير (xanzīr) m

• Armenian: խոզ (hy) (xoz) n
• Belarusian: свіння (be) (svinnjá) f
• Bulgarian: свиня (bg) (svinjá) f
• Catalan: suid (ca) m, marrà (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 豬 (cmn), 猪 (cmn) (zhū)

• Czech: vepř (cs) m, svině (cs) f
• Danish: svin (da) n
• Dutch: varken (nl)
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Estonian: sigalane (et)
• Finnish: sika (fi)
• French: cochon (fr) m
• Georgian: ღორი (ka) (ḡori)
• German: Schwein (de) n, Hausschwein (de) n
• Hindi: सूअर (hi) (sū'ar) m
• Hungarian: disznó (hu), sertés (hu)
• Irish: muc (ga) f
• Japanese: 豚 (ja) (ぶた, buta), ブタ (ja) (buta)
• Khmer: ជ្រូក (km) (jruuk)
• Korean: 돼지 (ko) (dwaeji)
• Latgalian: vepris m
• Latvian: vepris (lv)

• Lithuanian: meitėlis (lt) m
• Luxembourgish: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: свиња (mk) (svínja) f
• Maori: please add this translation if you can
• Navajo: bisóodi
• Norwegian: svin (no) n
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• Occitan: please add this translation if you can
• Old French: bacon
• Polish: wieprz (pl) m, świnia (pl) f
• Portuguese: suíno (pt) m
• Romanian: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: свинья (ru) (svinʹjá) f, боров (ru) (bórov) m (boar), вепрь (ru) (veprʹ) m (wild boar)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: свиња (sh) f

  Roman: svinja (sh) f

• Slovak: sviňa (sk) f
• Slovene: svinja (sl) f
• Spanish: puerco (es) m
• Swedish: svindjur (sv) n
• Ukrainian: свиня (uk) (svynjá) f
• Volapük: svin (vo)

greedy person

• Catalan: tacany (ca) m
• Finnish: kitupiikki (fi)
• German: Vielfraß (de) m, Sau (de) f

• Russian: скряга (ru) (skrjága) m and f, жадина (ru) (žádina) m and f (informal)
• Spanish: rácano (es) m

large motorcycle

• Finnish: harrikka (fi) (HD)
• Russian: мощный мотоцикл (ru) (móščnyj motocíkl) m

• Swedish: hoj (sv) c

Verb

hog (third-person singular simple present hogs, present participle hogging, simple past and past participle hogged)

1. (transitive) To greedily take more than one's share, to take precedence at the expense of another or others.

   Hey! Quit hogging all the blankets.

   2000 DiCamillo, Kate Because of Winn-Dixie, Scholastic Inc., New York, Ch 15:

   The [...] air-conditioning unit didn't work very good, and there was only one fan; and from the minute me and Winn-Dixie got in the library, he hogged it all.

2. (transitive) To clip the mane of a horse, making it short and bristly.

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3. (nautical) To scrub with a hog, or scrubbing broom.
4. (transitive, nautical) To cause the keel of a ship to arch upwards (the opposite of sag).

Translations

to greedily take more than one's share, to take precedence at the expense of another or others

• Finnish: rohmuta (fi), ahnehtia (fi), ahnehtia (fi)
• German: sich selbstsüchtig aneignen (de), in Beschlag nehhmen (de), raffen (de)
• Russian: (colloquial) заграбастывать (ru) (zagrabastyvatʹ), (colloquial) заграбастать (ru) (zagrabastatʹ), (colloquial) прибирать к рукам (ru) (pribiratʹ k rukam), (colloquial) прибрать к рукам (ru) (pribratʹ k rukam)

• Spanish: racanear (es)

to clip the mane of a horse, making it short and bristly

• Russian: коротко подстригать (ru) (korotko podstrigatʹ)

See also

• cold shoulder, pork barrel, swine

Anagrams

• OHG, OHG.

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Volapük

Pronunciation

• IPA: /hoɡ/

Noun

hog (plural hogs)

1. hole

Declension

declension of hog

	singular	plural
nominative	hog	hogs
genitive	hoga	hogas
dative	hoge	hoges
accusative	hogi	hogis
predicative	hogu	hogus
vocative	o hog!	o hogs!