Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. 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.
- n. A domesticated pig, especially one weighing over 54 kilograms (120 pounds).
- n. A self-indulgent, gluttonous, or filthy person.
- n. One that uses too much of something.
- n. Chiefly British A young sheep before it has been shorn.
- n. The wool from this type of sheep.
- n. Slang A big, heavy motorcycle.
- v. Informal To take more than one's share of: Don't hog the couch.
- v. To cause (the back) to arch like that of a hog.
- v. To cut (a horse's mane) short and bristly.
- v. To shred (waste wood, for example) by machine.
- v. Nautical To arch upward in the middle. Used of a ship's keel.
- idiom. on Slang In a lavish or extravagant manner: lived high on the hog after getting his inheritance.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A gelded pig; a barrow-pig.
- n. An omnivorous non-ruminant mammal of the family Suidœ, suborder Artiodactyla, and order Ungulata; a pig, sow, or boar; a swine. All the varieties of the domestic hog are derived from the wild boar, Sus scrofa. (See
boar .) The river-hogs are somewhat aquatic African species of the genus Potamochœrus. The babirussa is a true hog of the same family, Suidœ. See cut underbabirussa . - n. Some animal like or likened to a hog, not of the family Suidœ. See wart-hog, Phacochœrus, peccary, and Dicotyles.
- n. A sheep shorn in the first year, or just after the first year; a young sheep.
- n. A young colt.
- n. A bullock a year old.
- n. One who has the characteristics of the hog; a mean, stingy, grasping, gluttonous, or filthy person.
- n. Nautical, a sort of scrubbing- broom for scraping a ship's bottom under water.
- n. A stirrer or agitator in the pulp-vat of a paper-making plant.
- n. A shilling, or perhaps a sixpence.
- To cut (the hair) short: as, to hog a horse's mane.
- To scrape (a ship's bottom) under water.
- To carry on the back.
- To droop at both ends, so as to resemble in some degree a hog's back in outline: said of the bottom of a ship when in this condition either through faulty construction or from accident.
- In the manège, to hold or carry the head down, like a hog.
- n. In the game of curling, a stone which does not go over the hog-score; also, the hog-score itself.
- In curling, to play, as a stone, with so little force that it does not clear the hog-score.
- n. A small locomotive used for hauling cars about mines; a hogback locomotive.
- n. A machine for grinding logs.
- n. In shipbuilding, the condition of being hogged: generally used quantitatively with reference to the amount of deflection from the normal condition. See hog, intransitive verb, 1.
- To act as greedily and as selfishly as a hog in regard to (something); take more than one's share of; appropriate selfishly.
Wiktionary
- n. Any animal belonging to the Suidae family of mammals, especially the pig, the wart hog, and the boar.
- n. A greedy person; one who refuses to share.
- n. slang A large motorcycle, particularly a Harley-Davidson.
- v. transitive To greedily take more than one's share, to take precedence at the expense of another or others.
- v. transitive To clip the mane of a horse, making it short and bristly.
- v. transitive, nautical To cause the keel of a ship to arch upwards (the opposite of sag).
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) A quadruped of the genus Sus, and allied genera of
Suidæ ; esp., the domesticated varieties of Sus scrofa, kept for their fat and meat, called, respectively, lard and pork; swine; porker; specifically, a castrated boar; a barrow. - n. Low. A mean, filthy, or gluttonous fellow.
- n. engraving A young sheep that has not been shorn.
- n. (Naut.) A rough, flat scrubbing broom for scrubbing a ship's bottom under water.
- n. (Paper Manuf.) A device for mixing and stirring the pulp of which paper is made.
- v. To cut short like bristles.
- v. (Naut.) To scrub with a hog, or scrubbing broom.
- v. (Naut.) To become bent upward in the middle, like a hog's back; -- said of a ship broken or strained so as to have this form.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a person regarded as greedy and pig-like
- n. a sheep up to the age of one year; one yet to be sheared
- v. take greedily; take more than one's share
- n. domestic swine
Etymologies
- From Middle English, from Old English hogg, hocg ("hog"), possibly from Old Norse hǫggva ("to strike, chop, cut"), from Proto-Germanic *hawwanan (“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. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Old English hogg, possibly of Celtic origin; see sū- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The following question was a favourite topic for discussion, and the acutest logicians never resolved it: "When a hog is carried to market with a rope tied about his neck, which is held at the other end by a man, whether is the _hog_ carried to market by the”
“The term hog appeared singularly inappropriate as applied to him.”
“The biggest hog is almost always firefox (unfortunately).”
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“The difference between a dog and a hog is one silly little phoneme, but if you want bacon, you better get it right.”
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“Yes | No | Report from vork23 wrote 2 days 17 hours ago chad i am pumped for another 6 of winter just means more ice fishinh here in mn. but the robotic ground hog is BS!!!”
“All Replies from bighunter wrote 11 weeks 13 hours ago this thanksgiving im a goin hog huntin”
“Bow hunting hog from the ground cna be fun, just make your shouts count.”
“He is in hog heaven right now and cant stop himself.”
“Closest thing I've seen related to a hog is bacon I see sitting in my fridge waiting to be cooked.”
“If the hog is female we take her, put her in a pen and feed her out until she is fat then she is butchered and cooked whole or ground up for sausage.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘hog’.
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EN - 3-letter words of the pattern CVC
With the exception of abbreviations and mosaic words all types of words (proper names, past tense of verbs, etc.) are allowed.
for, was, not, his, but, has, had, can, her, him, new, now and 339 more...
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animals (1 syllable)
A list of common animal names. Keep the list to 1 syllable words.No scientific names. No proper names like 'Fluffy' the elephant.Insects and other creatures (even ficticious) are welcome!You can ...
dog, cat, bear, bee, ass, ape, horse, squid, bug, hare, hawk, pig and 138 more...
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Open List: Sheepishness
Everything sheep, from Artiodactyla to zodiac.
lanolin, ram, ewe, Artiodactyla, even-toed ungulate, ruminant, Ovis aries, ovine, domestic, domesticated, neotenic, mouflon and 426 more...
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You animal!
Names of animals that are also used to describe kinds of people. Nouns only, preferably single word.
For a related list, see sionnach's beastly verbs.rabbit, shark, hog, pussycat, bear, bull, skunk, hawk, wildcat, buck, slug, heifer and 112 more...
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Swine
For more aporkalyptic fun, see madmouth's Everything's better with a pig in it.
For "references to the Dursleys in Wizard People, Dear Reader, Brad Neely's cosmos-shattering voiceover ...swine, pig, hog, boar, pork, pork bellies, hog cholera, swineherd, pigsty, swine flu, oink, pig in a blanket and 188 more...
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3-letter Scrabble Words
aah, aal, aas, aba, abo, abs, aby, ace, act, add, ado, ads and 995 more...
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Words that can be spelled on an upsid...
Imagine my joy when I was wearing my calculator watch and was first introduced to someone named Leslie - there was exactly enough room on the display for 317537.14.
Edit: I've discove...hi, hello, leslie, sheesh, she, bells, hells, hog, boss, goggles, he, bob and 233 more...
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wunderkammer's Words
smarmy, bubkes, elucidate, togs, aeolian, carp, kibosh, bosky, ramshackle, mange, harpy, effervesce and 163 more...
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beastly verbs
someone must already have this list?
squirrel away, worm it out of so..., pony up, fish for compliments, weasel out, badger, outfox, horse around, hound, cow, chicken out, goose and 99 more...
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wood
chubbie, glander, hard-on, blue veiner, plumper, wood, hog, johnson, willy, member, stiffie
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Ugly Words--short O
The short O as in "pot" is a most disagreeable sound.
raucous, wanton, marauder, slaughterhouse, nostril, gossamer, obnoxious, hog, proboscis, equinoctial, noxious, sauerbraten and 16 more...
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Islands of New York City
coney, staten, city, manhattan, ellis, governors, hart, liberty, long, roosevelt, hoffman, swinburne and 29 more...
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Ugly Words
Words that I think sound "ugly" or have an "ugly" connotation.
vomit, wart, grime, sludge, puke, mulch, drudge, garbage, secrete, puss, zit, membrane and 9 more...
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Maths lessons well spent
Words that can be spelled on a calculator. "Beghilosz"
boobless, giggle, igloo, goose, egg, gosh, loose, shell, bible, hellhole, hobo, ohio and 21 more...
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There was an old lady...
There was an old lady who swallowed a fly.
I don't know why she swallowed that fly,
Perhaps she'll die.
There was an old lady who swallowed a spider,
That wiggled and...old lady, swallowed, fly, perhaps, die, spider, wiggled, jiggled, tickled, catch, bird, absurd and 12 more...
Tweets
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hernesheir See hoggerel.
Scots hog-ham: hung mutton of a year-old sheep that has died of disease, or been smothered in the snow; hog and tatoe: braxy mutton stewed with potatoes, onion, salt, pepper, &c., for farm-servants. --Dr. Jamieson's Scottish Dictionary and Supplement, 1841. May 20, 2011
PossibleUnderscore You find me cold, unfeeling, selfish, don't you? Very well, be off with you to the sort of people you like. Marry some sentimental hog or other with lots of money, and a thick pair of lips to kiss you with and a thick pair of boots to kick you with.
-Pygmalion, George Bernard Shaw Aug 3, 2009
vanishedone WeirdNet puts the 'person regarded as greedy and pig-like' at the top, but then references sheep before it gets to the actual pig. May 22, 2008