hog.
Any animal belonging to the Suidae family of mammals, especially the pig, the warthog, and the boar.
Meaning & usage
Any animal belonging to the Suidae family of mammals, especially the pig, the warthog, and the boar.
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.
A greedy person or thing; one who refuses to share; a gluttonous one.
resource hog
Since the latest upgrade, this program has turned into a CPU hog.
A large motorcycle, particularly a Harley-Davidson.
A young sheep that has not been shorn.
A rough, flat scrubbing broom for scrubbing a ship's bottom under water.
A device for mixing and stirring the pulp from which paper is made.
A shilling coin; its value, 12 old pence.
A tanner, a sixpence coin; its value.
A half-crown coin; its value, 30 old pence.
The effect of the middle of the hull of a ship rising while the ends droop.
A penis.
Where this word comes from
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”).
To greedily take more than one's share, to take precedence at the expense of another or others.
Hey! Quit hogging all the blankets.
To clip the mane of a horse, making it short and bristly.
To clip the mane of a horse, making it short and bristly. (of a hedge) to trim up closely
To scrub with a hog, or scrubbing broom.
To cause the keel of a ship to arch upwards (the opposite of sag).
To take a rough cut, quickly removing material; to hog out.
Where this word comes from
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”).
To process (bark, etc.) into hog fuel.
A quahog (clam).
Where this word comes from
Clipping of quahog.
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