Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. A species of wild pig native to Africa.
- n. A nickname for the A-10 Thunderbolt II air support warplane
WordNet 3.0
- n. African wild swine with warty protuberances on the face and large protruding tusks
Etymologies
- wart + hog (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Lots of African antelope, some north American things, but the warthog was my personal favorite.”
“And then at the end of the video when they show a game of king of the hill where a warthog is the hill, I know that is a mode I will have to play.”
“The warthog is a little animal with strange facial features.”
“When my son was little I used to call chicken with toothpicks in it "warthog" so he would eat … and he would.”
“We simply follow the pulling of the rope, and it takes us to a kudu, giraffe, eland, warthog, or gemsbok.”
“Does this warthog actually have the cajones to dare speak for God???”
Think Progress » Limbaugh: Volcanic eruption in Iceland is God’s reaction to health care’s passage.
“The hypothesis is that if there is a good supply of low-value natural prey, such as warthog or duikers, the big cats aren't really interested in livestock," says Alan Hoffberg, 71, a Longwood, Fla., resident and Biosphere's U.S. spokesperson.”
The Wall Street Journal: Saving the World—One Vacation at a Time
“The son blows the horn, pounds his fake fur-covered chest, then the shaggy tribe squats in a circle, rips the warthog wide open with their hands and teeth, and begins to gorge.”
“But after the lava scene, a scruffy dark-haired caveman appears, wrestling with a warthog.”
“On-screen, the story flips back to the dark tribe dining on warthog.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘warthog’.
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Open List: Prodigies of Ugliness
List name taken from the Swedish naturalist Carl Jakob Sundevall's characterization of the greater adjutant stork as a "prodigy of ugliness". This list could include man-made things like cities, a...
elephant man, humphead parrotfish, naked mole rat, warthog, rust belt, international style, cellular phone to..., suburbs, anglerfish, lamprey, Michael Jackson's..., strip malls and 17 more...
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Vocab
Words that I come across, and go blank, or want to clarify.
nefarious, edifice, malevolent, ostensible, folderol, bauble, livid, amnesty, calculus, saddlery, maisonette, cuisse and 423 more...
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ungulate
because they have the lovliest names!
ungulate, pronghorn, okapi, giraffe, llama, peccary, tapir, oryx, dik dik, duiker, eland, gazelle and 30 more...
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baby animal
tapir, okapi, octopus, pony, hedgepig, pudgie, manatee, pangolin, omnivore, sloth, porcupine, warthog and 1 more...
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candyman's Words
bike, ninja, ammunition, cyclist, pie, pie, adventure, grove, star, tree, he, she and 36 more...
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