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  1. noun Any of various mammals of the family Suidae, which includes the domesticated pig as well as wild species, such as the boar and the wart hog.
  2. noun A domesticated pig, especially one weighing over 54 kilograms (120 pounds).
  3. noun A self-indulgent, gluttonous, or filthy person.
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  • The Pistons have a surplus of problems, but I'm not convinced that defending a ball-hog is among the top-5. —  WordPress.com News
  • The authors suggest getting a "dressed" hog, meaning that the whole hog isn't entirely whole, but has had some parts removed - like the feet, tail, innards - and the bristles scraped off.
  • They eat of the flesh of the hog which is forbidden by our gods and they drink of the Fallingdownwater which is taboo also. —  Latest Articles
  • At eight months old, the hog is already 250 pounds of pork (the average lifespan of a commercially-raised pig is considerably less, often slaughtered at 4 months). —  Not Eating Out in New York
  • The ensign shouldered the hog--fortunately for him, not a very heavy one--the men having cut up the seal, divided the pieces between them, and the captain carried the birds; and thus heavily laden they reached the village soon after nightfall. —  The Voyages of the Ranger and Crusader And what befell their Passengers and Crews.
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  1. Middle English, from Old English hogg, possibly of Celtic origin; see sū- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English hog, hoge, hogge, a gelded hog, a young sheep (cf. in comp. hog-pig, a barrow-pig, hog-colt, a young colt, hogget, a sheep or colt after it has passed its first year, and obsolete English hoggerel, hoggrel, a young sheep, hoggaster, hogster, a boar in its third year, also a lamb after its first year, hoglin, a boar); prob. from hog, v., a variant of hag, which is a variant of hack, cut: see hog, v., hag, and hack. The term is applied to a ‘cut’ or gelded boar, to a sheep ‘cut’ or shorn the first year, or just after the first year, hence a young sheep, and hence extended to a young colt. There is no sufficient evidence for the current etymology from Welsh hwch, a sow, = Cornish hoch, a pig, hog, = Breton houch, hoch, a hog, = Irish suig, ult. = Anglo-Saxon sugu, sū, English sow: see sow.
  2. In def. 1 prob. a variant of hag for hack, cut; the orig., and not a derivative, of hog, n., to which, however, the later senses are due. Cf. Middle Low German hoggen, a secondary form of houwen = English hew, to which hack is ult. referred.
  3. Origin obscure; by some identified with hog, as “laggard stones that manifest a pig-like indolence,” or, it might be thought, in allusion to the helplessness of a hog on ice, there being in the United States an ironical simile, “as independent as a hog on ice.” But neither this explanation nor that which brings in D. hok, a pen, kennel, sty, dock, is supported by any evidence. Perhaps first applied not to the stone, but to the hog-score or line ‘cut’ in the ice, from hog, cut, and thus in fact connected in another way with hog, q. v.
  4. from hog, n.
 

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