hog (hôg, h g)n.1. a. 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. b. A domesticated pig, especially one weighing over 54 kilograms (120 pounds). 2. a. A self-indulgent, gluttonous, or filthy person. b. One that uses too much of something. 3. also hogga. Chiefly British A young sheep before it has been shorn. b. The wool from this type of sheep. 4. Slang A big, heavy motorcycle. v. hogged, hog·ging, hogs v.tr.1. Informal To take more than one's share of: Don't hog the couch. 2. To cause (the back) to arch like that of a hog. 3. To cut (a horse's mane) short and bristly. 4. To shred (waste wood, for example) by machine. v.intr. Nautical To arch upward in the middle. Used of a ship's keel. Idiom: high on/off the hog Slang In a lavish or extravagant manner: lived high on the hog after getting his inheritance.
[Middle English, from Old English hogg, possibly of Celtic origin; see s - in Indo-European roots.] |
hog Noun
1. a castrated male pig
2. US & Canad any mammal of the pig family
3. Informal a greedy person
4. go the whole hog Slang to do something in the most complete way possible
Verb
[hogging, hogged]
Slang to take more than one's share of (something) [Old English hogg]
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| Noun | 1. | hog - a person regarded as greedy and pig-like |
| 2. | hog - a sheep up to the age of one year; one yet to be sheared |
| 3. | hog - domestic swineswine - stout-bodied short-legged omnivorous animals porker - a pig fattened to provide meat trotter - foot of a pig or sheep especially one used as food porc, pork - meat from a domestic hog or pig lard - soft white semisolid fat obtained by rendering the fatty tissue of the hog |
| Verb | 1. | hog - take greedily; take more than one's sharesnaffle, snap up, grab - get hold of or seize quickly and easily; "I snapped up all the good buys during the garage sale" |
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