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hog en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

• /hɑɡ/ (General-American, cot-caught-merger)
• (General-American) audio
• /hɔɡ/ (General-American)
• /hɒɡ/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

From Middle English hog, from Old English hogg, hocg (“hog”), possibly from Old Norse hǫggva (“to strike, chop, cut”), from Proto-Germanic *hawwaną (“to hew, forge”), from Proto-Indo-European *kewh₂- (“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. Alternatively from a Brythonic language, from Proto-Celtic *sukkos, from Proto-Indo-European *suH- and thus cognate with Welsh hwch (“sow”) and Cornish hogh (“pig”).

Meanings

1. Any animal belonging to the Suidae family of mammals, especially the pig, the warthog, and the boar.
2. (specifically) Any animal belonging to the Suidae family of mammals, especially the pig, the warthog, and the boar. ▸ An adult swine, at or above a certain body weight.
   • 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:
3. (figuratively, informal) A greedy person or thing; one who refuses to share; a gluttonous one.
   • Since the latest upgrade, this program has turned into a CPU hog.
   • resource hog
   • Yeah, whatever you old dried up fat hog. 1998 June 3, “Conjoined Fetus Lady”, in South Park, season 2, episode 5:
4. (slang) A large motorcycle, particularly a Harley-Davidson.
   • […] bike. That rider looked relatively young. If he's a Border Force guy just doing a nine to five job back there, I'd like to know where he gets the money to ride that hog,” Max said. “Looks expensive,” Chloe replied. 2021 August 1, Phil Copsey, The Calibre of Justice: Book 2 of the Tony Signorotto Series, in case of emergency press:
   • […] bike balanced almost vertically while coasting to a nearly complete stop; […] ride that hog one hundred miles an hour up and off a ramp, […] 2023 July 11, Jake Tapper, All the Demons Are Here: A Thriller, Little, Brown, →ISBN:
5. (UK) A young sheep that has not been shorn.
6. A rough, flat scrubbing broom for scrubbing a ship's bottom under water.
   • Hog, on board a ship, is a sort of flat scrubbing-broom, formed by inclosing a number of short twigs of birch or such wood between two pieces of plank fastened together, and cutting off the ends of the twigs. It is used to scrape the filth from a ship's bottom under water, particularly in the act of boot-topping. For this purpose they fit to this broom a long staff with two ropes; one of which is used to thrust the hog under the ship's bottom, and the other to guide and pull it up again close to the planks. 1813, John Mason Good, Olinthus Gilbert Gregory, Newton Bosworth, Pantologia. A new (cabinet) cyclopædia, volume 5, T. Davison, Lombard street, Whitefriars, page 11:
7. A device for mixing and stirring the pulp from which paper is made.
8. (UK, archaic, countable, historical, slang, uncountable) A shilling coin; its value, 12 old pence.
   • “’Ere y'are, the best rig-out you ever ’ad. A tosheroon [half a crown]^([sic]) for the coat, two ’ogs for the trousers, one and a tanner for the boots, and a ’og for the cap and scarf. That's seven bob.” 1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XXIX, in Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz […], →OCLC, pages 214–215:
   • hog (pl hog). A shilling: orig. (ca 1670), c.; in C.19–20, low s. 1961, Eric Partridge, The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang:
9. (UK, countable, historical, obsolete, slang, uncountable) A tanner, a sixpence coin; its value.
   • 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. 1961, Eric Partridge, The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang:
10. (UK, countable, historical, obsolete, slang, uncountable) A half-crown coin; its value, 30 old pence.
    • hog (pl hog)... 3. A half-crown: ca 1860–1910. 1961, Eric Partridge, The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang:
11. The effect of the middle of the hull of a ship rising while the ends droop.
    • I would not consider a ship unseaworthy because she had a hog. There is no danger to life in sailing in a hogged ship. I have sailed in vessels having a 2-ft. hog in the keel. The keel has been straightened by being filled in underneath. 1920, The Records of the Proceedings and the Printed Papers, Parliamentary paper:
    • On inspection it was found that the vessel's keel had a hog of nearly fourteen inches. 2007, Charles E. Brodine, Michael J. Crawford, Christine F. Hughes, Interpreting Old Ironsides: An Illustrated Guide to USS Constitution, Government Printing Office, →ISBN, page 84:
12. (vulgar) A penis.
    • He had to piss in the worst way, but the game was in play and there was no way he was going anywhere to relieve himself. It was right in the center of the Armand huddle that he got so desperate he pulled out his hog and let it go. 1996, S. Joseph Krol, Northbridge High Football Camp, GMP Publishers, →ISBN, page 9:
    • It wasn't like I was about to drop my panties and ride his hog in the basement; I got down and dirty, but not like that; I requested the seclusion of four walls. 2003, Sonya Harris, Guilty Pleasures, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 77:

Forms

Coordinates

hogget · pig · pigling · piglet · shoat

Deriveds

hog scraper · hog island · hoggism · hog molly · hog town · hog-plum · hoggard · hog-maned · hog fennel · hog gum tree · shear hog · hogless · hog-whimpering · hog peanut · hog tub · boar hog · hog-tooth spar · hog line violation · hog Latin · hog loom · hog cote · ground-hog · resource hog · Indochinese hog deer · hogreeve · hogback · hog-reeve · hogling · hog-wallowing · hog-rabbit · crank the hog · hog rubber · hoghead · hog-Morse · hog apple · hedgehog · hog ring · hogframe · hog tapir · water hog · hoggish · hoggery · hog-monkey · horned hog · sandhog · hog fat · hog deer · hog mouse · hogyard · go whole hog · hog-wallow · hogskin · bush hog · useless as teats on a boar hog · hog cholera · hoglet · Hog's Back · hogringer · ground hog · hog plague · hogpen · hog-rubber · hogman · go the whole hog · hog flu · giant forest hog · hog-rat · hog-train · hoglike · hog badger · hog line · hogweed · hog-slip · useless as tits on a boar hog · red river hog · hog-gum · hog bed · hog stag · sea-hog · right lane hog · sea hog · thornhog · crank one's hog · hog-beetle · hog bull · Hoover hog · hog constable · hog-tub · hognut · hogshit · hog-wild · Mexican hog · hog plum · hog-ring · hogleg · barrow-hog · warthog · sand hog · hog fever · on the hog · hogsucker · hog-babe · hog colt · hoggishly · hog-face · left lane hog · hog-loom · hog-fever · hog-tie · hoghood · truffle hog · hogbacked · hoghide · Kitti's hog-nosed bat · bleed like a stuck hog · hog millet · hog farm · hog train · hog-tight · hog cistern · hogchain · Catahoula hog dog · hog wallow · hogmane · hoghouse · hog-plague · hoggishness · hogberry · hog waller · earthhog · hog-dogging · hog farmer · hog meat · hog caller · high on the hog · hog leg · gas-hog · hogshead · hogchoke · hedge-hog · hog pea · hogger · hog reeve · hog pox · hognose · hog rump · hog calling · groundhog · hogsty · hogwash · werehog · road hog · hog-baying · hoggy · hogward · hog chain · hogherd · pygmy hog · hogboat · high off the hog · hog caterpillar · hog-pen · hog potato · stag hog · hog feast · hogcote · hogwort · hog maw · hog-ape · hog call · hog heaven · hogchoker · hog jaw · hog rifle · hog gum · hog grass · hog-nosed skunk · hog tight · hog-corn ratio · ball hog · hog money · road-hog · river hog · hog age · hogfish · hungry as a hog · hog-faced ape · Indian hog deer · hog-pea · prized hog · corn-hog ratio · prize hog · sand-hog · on the hog train · whole hog

Descendants

agu

Hypernyms

mammal · vertebrate · porcine · creature · suilline · swine · organism · suidian · animal

Hyponyms

black hog · white hog (shilling coins)

Synonyms

slow belly · buzgut · hog · greedyguts · dog · cormorant · big back · helluo · gorger · Homer Simpson · gormandizer · animal · pig · gannet · glutton · trencherman · gourmand · pig · epicure · guttle · belly-god

Translations (101)

ro porc (animal of the family Suidae) · ja 豚 (animal of the family Suidae) · sh свиња (animal of the family Suidae) · fi harrikka (HD) (large motorcycle) · de Vielfraß (greedy person) · egy r:*r-i-E12 (animal of the family Suidae) · fi kitupiikki (greedy person) · fa خوک (animal of the family Suidae) · ziw nguluwe class 9 (animal of the family Suidae) · mk свиња (animal of the family Suidae) · oc pòrc (animal of the family Suidae) · vi lợn (animal of the family Suidae) · ru жа́дина (greedy person) · tl baboy (animal of the family Suidae) · ru свинья́ (animal of the family Suidae) · es motaza (large motorcycle) · uk свиня́ (animal of the family Suidae) · et sigalane (animal of the family Suidae) · mi poaka (animal of the family Suidae) · de Hausschwein (animal of the family Suidae) · cmn 豬 /猪 (animal of the family Suidae) · sv hoj (large motorcycle) · he חזיר (animal of the family Suidae) · hu kapzsi alak (greedy person) · nl zwijn (animal of the family Suidae) · fro bacon (animal of the family Suidae) · oj gookoosh (animal of the family Suidae) · es puerco (animal of the family Suidae) · enm swine (animal of the family Suidae) · lv vepris (animal of the family Suidae) · no svin (animal of the family Suidae) · ja ブタ (animal of the family Suidae) · km ជ្រូក (animal of the family Suidae) · ga muc (greedy person) · ca acaparador (greedy person) · bg свиня́ (animal of the family Suidae) · sk sviňa (animal of the family Suidae) · ga muc (animal of the family Suidae) · pl świnia (animal of the family Suidae) · ru мо́щный мотоци́кл (large motorcycle) · cic shokha' (animal of the family Suidae) · ca suid (animal of the family Suidae) · sv svindjur (animal of the family Suidae) · bg скъперник (greedy person) · cs vepř (animal of the family Suidae) · pt suíno (animal of the family Suidae) · de Schwein (animal of the family Suidae) · vi heo (animal of the family Suidae) · hu disznó (animal of the family Suidae) · id moge (large motorcycle) · lt meitėlis (animal of the family Suidae) · hu sertés (animal of the family Suidae) · ga borra (animal of the family Suidae) · hy խոզ (animal of the family Suidae) · enm pigge (animal of the family Suidae) · ltg vepris (animal of the family Suidae) · fi sika (animal of the family Suidae) · gl cocho (animal of the family Suidae) · ka ღორი (animal of the family Suidae) · nl varken (animal of the family Suidae) · fi ahnehtija (greedy person) · cs svině (animal of the family Suidae) · uk кнур (animal of the family Suidae) · hi सूअर (animal of the family Suidae) · de Sau (greedy person) · cy mochyn (animal of the family Suidae) · da svin (animal of the family Suidae) · lb Schwäin (animal of the family Suidae) · fi rohmu (greedy person) · ru бо́ров (animal of the family Suidae) · ru вепрь (animal of the family Suidae) · nv bisóodi (animal of the family Suidae) · arz خنزير (animal of the family Suidae) · grc χοῖρος (animal of the family Suidae) · id babi (animal of the family Suidae) · es cerdo (animal of the family Suidae) · txb suwo (animal of the family Suidae) · ar خِنْزِير (animal of the family Suidae) · es codicioso (greedy person) · ru скря́га (greedy person) · fr cochon (animal of the family Suidae) · la sūs (animal of the family Suidae) · ko 돼지 (animal of the family Suidae) · cy bolgi (greedy person) · vo svin (animal of the family Suidae) · bg прасе (animal of the family Suidae) · pdt Schwien (nds) (animal of the family Suidae) · ca cobdiciós (greedy person) · gl acaparador (greedy person) · sh svinja (animal of the family Suidae) · ca marrà (animal of the family Suidae) · pl wieprz (animal of the family Suidae) · ca àvid (greedy person) · pt ganancioso (greedy person) · grc ὗς (hûs) (animal of the family Suidae) · ast gochu (animal of the family Suidae) · fa گراز (animal of the family Suidae) · sl svinja (animal of the family Suidae) · be свіння́ (animal of the family Suidae) · uk кабан (animal of the family Suidae) · enm hog (animal of the family Suidae)

hog en · VERB · etymology 1

Pronunciation

• /hɑɡ/ (General-American, cot-caught-merger)
• (General-American) audio
• /hɔɡ/ (General-American)
• /hɒɡ/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

From Middle English hog, from Old English hogg, hocg (“hog”), possibly from Old Norse hǫggva (“to strike, chop, cut”), from Proto-Germanic *hawwaną (“to hew, forge”), from Proto-Indo-European *kewh₂- (“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. Alternatively from a Brythonic language, from Proto-Celtic *sukkos, from Proto-Indo-European *suH- and thus cognate with Welsh hwch (“sow”) and Cornish hogh (“pig”).

Meanings

1. (informal, transitive) To greedily take more than one's share, to take precedence at the expense of another or others.
   • 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. 2000, Kate DiCamillo, chapter 15, in Because of Winn-Dixie, New York: Scholastic Inc.:
   • Hey! Quit hogging all the blankets.
2. (transitive) To clip the mane of a horse, making it short and bristly.
   • Some, perhaps, would wish to plait or shave the tail and crimp or hog the mane to complete the picture. 1880, William Day, The Racehorse in Training:
3. (transitive) To clip the mane of a horse, making it short and bristly. ▸ (of a hedge) to trim up closely
4. To scrub with a hog, or scrubbing broom.
5. (transitive) To cause the keel of a ship to arch upwards (the opposite of sag).
   • Difficulty may be encountered when securing cargo hatches on ships which hog or sag and the water-tight integrity of the ship may be impaired. 2013, H. I. Lavery, Shipboard Operations, Routledge, →ISBN, page 267:
   • Although most of the buoyancy of a ship is provided by the middle part of the hull and comparatively little by the tapering ends, nothing will ever prevent people from putting heavy weights into the ends of a ship. One result of this is that many vessels tend to 'hog' (the two ends tend to droop and the middle of the hull tends to rise). 1991, J. E. Gordon, Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down, Penguin UK, →ISBN, page 52:
6. To take a rough cut, quickly removing material; to hog out.

Forms

Deriveds

hog up

Synonyms

bogart (take greedily)

Translations (25)

fi rohmuta (to take more than one's share) · nl voor zichzelf opeisen (to take more than one's share) · fr accaparer (to take more than one's share) · hu lefoglal (to take more than one's share) · ru прибрать к рука́м (to take more than one's share) · ru прибирать к рука́м (to take more than one's share) · ja 独占する (to take more than one's share) · ru жадничать (to take more than one's share) · es chupar (to take more than one's share) · de raffen (to take more than one's share) · fi omia (to take more than one's share) · hu elfoglal (to take more than one's share) · hu magának tart fenn (to take more than one's share) · ru заграбастать (to take more than one's share) · ja 独り占めする (to take more than one's share) · de in Beschlag nehmen (to take more than one's share) · fi ahnehtia (to take more than one's share) · nl inpikken (to take more than one's share) · ru заграбастывать (to take more than one's share) · de sich selbstsüchtig aneignen (to take more than one's share) · hu kisajátít (to take more than one's share) · fi kuurata (nautical: to scrub with a hog) · sv roffa åt sig (to take more than one's share) · es adueñarse de (to take more than one's share) · ru ко́ротко подстригать (to clip the mane of a horse, making it short and bristly)

hog en · VERB · etymology 2

Pronunciation

• /hɑɡ/ (General-American, cot-caught-merger)
• (General-American) audio
• /hɔɡ/ (General-American)
• /hɒɡ/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Meanings

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

Forms

Deriveds

unhogged

hog en · NOUN · etymology 3

Pronunciation

• /hɑɡ/ (General-American, cot-caught-merger)
• (General-American) audio
• /hɔɡ/ (General-American)
• /hɒɡ/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

Clipping of quahog.

Meanings

1. (informal) A quahog (clam).

Forms