hog
English
Alternative forms
- (UK, dialectal) 'og
Pronunciation
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Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -ɒɡ
- Homophone: hogg
Etymology 1
From Middle English hog, from Old English hogg, hocg (“hog”), possibly from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Norse Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter "sc" should be a valid script code; the value "Latinx" is not valid. See WT:LOS., 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)
- Any animal belonging to the Suidae family of mammals, especially the pig, the warthog, and the boar.
- (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.
- 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:
- A greedy person; one who refuses to share.
- (slang) A large motorcycle, particularly a Harley-Davidson.
- (UK) A young sheep that has not been shorn.
- (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?)
- A device for mixing and stirring the pulp from which paper is made.
- (UK, historical, archaic slang, countable and uncountable) A shilling coin; its value, 12 old pence.
- (UK, historical, obsolete slang, countable and uncountable) A tanner, a sixpence coin; its value.
- (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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Verb
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- (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.
- 2000 DiCamillo, Kate Because of Winn-Dixie, Scholastic Inc., New York, Ch 15:
- (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?)
- (nautical) To scrub with a hog, or scrubbing broom.
- (transitive, nautical) To cause the keel of a ship to arch upwards (the opposite of sag).
Synonyms
- (take greedily): bogart
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Etymology 2
Verb
hog (third-person singular simple present hog, present participle g, simple past and past participle ed)
- (transitive) To process (bark, etc.) into hog fuel.
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Etymology 3
Noun
hog (plural hogs)
Anagrams
Middle English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old English hogg, hocg; further etymology is disputed.
Pronunciation
Noun
hog (plural hogges, genitive hogges)
- A pig or swine, especially one that is castrated and male.
- The meat of swine or pigs.
- A hogget or young sheep.
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Descendants
References
- “hogge (n.(1))”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.
Volapük
Pronunciation
Noun
hog (nominative plural hogs)
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