hog

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See also: hög and høg

English

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Alternative forms

  • (UK, dialectal) 'og

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -ɒɡ
  • Homophone: hogg

Etymology 1

From Middle English hog, from Old English hogg, hocg (“hog”), possibly from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Norse hǫggva (“to strike, chop, cut”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *hawwaną (“to hew, forge”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] 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, hence a sense of "the cut one". (Compare "hogget" for a castrated male sheep.) More at hew.

Noun

hog (plural hogs)

  1. Any animal belonging to the Suidae family of mammals, especially the pig, the warthog, and the boar.
  2. (specifically) An adult swine (contrasted with a pig, a young swine).
    • 2005 April, Live Swine from Canada, Investigation No. 731-TA-1076 (Final), publication 3766, April 2005, U.S. International Trade Commission →ISBN, page I-9:
      Weanlings grow into feeder pigs, and feeder pigs grow into slaughter hogs. […] Ultimately the end use for virtually all pigs and hogs is to be slaughtered for the production of pork and other products.
  3. A greedy person; one who refuses to share.
  4. (slang) A large motorcycle, particularly a Harley-Davidson.
  5. (UK) A young sheep that has not been shorn.
  6. (nautical) A rough, flat scrubbing broom for scrubbing a ship's bottom under water.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Totten to this entry?)
  7. A device for mixing and stirring the pulp from which paper is made.
  8. (UK, historical, archaic slang, countable and uncountable) A shilling coin; its value, 12 old pence.
  9. (UK, historical, obsolete slang, countable and uncountable) A tanner, a sixpence coin; its value.
    • 1961, Eric Partridge, The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang:
      hog (pl hog)... 2. In C.18–early 19, occ. a sixpence: also c., whence the U.S. sense. Prob. ex the figure of a hog on a small silver coin.
  10. (UK, historical, obsolete slang, countable and uncountable) A half-crown coin; its value, 30 old pence.
    • 1961, Eric Partridge, The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang:
      hog (pl hog)... 3. A half-crown: ca 1860–1910.
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Terms derived from hog (noun)

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Translations

Verb

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  1. (transitive) To greedily take more than one's share, to take precedence at the expense of another or others.
    • 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.
    Hey! Quit hogging all the blankets.
  2. (transitive) To clip the mane of a horse, making it short and bristly.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Smart to this entry?)
  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).
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Etymology 2

Verb

hog (third-person singular simple present hog, present participle g, simple past and past participle ed)

  1. (transitive) To process (bark, etc.) into hog fuel.
Derived terms

Etymology 3

Clipping of quahog

Noun

hog (plural hogs)

  1. (informal) A quahog (clam)

Anagrams

Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old English hogg, hocg; further etymology is disputed.

Pronunciation

Noun

hog (plural hogges, genitive hogges)

  1. A pig or swine, especially one that is castrated and male.
  2. The meat of swine or pigs.
  3. A hogget or young sheep.

Synonyms

Related terms

Descendants

  • English: hog
  • Scots: hog, hogue

References

Volapük

Pronunciation

Noun

hog (nominative plural hogs)

  1. hole

Declension

declension of hog
singular plural
nominative hog hogs
genitive hoga hogas
dative hoge hoges
accusative hogi hogis
vocative 1 o hog! o hogs!
predicative 2 hogu hogus
  • 1 status as a case is disputed
  • 2 in later, non-classical Volapük only
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