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hog (hôg, häg)

noun pl. hogs, hog

  1. any swine, esp. a domesticated adult (Sus scrofa) ready for market, or, in England, a castrated boar
  2. Brit. a young sheep not yet shorn
  3. Informal a selfish, greedy, gluttonous, coarse, or filthy person
  4. Slang a large, heavy motorcycle

Etymology: ME < OE hogg < ? or akin to ON höggva, to cut (akin to OE heawan, hew), in basic sense “castrated”

transitive verb hogged, hog′·ging

    1. to arch (the back) like a hog's
    2. to cause (a ship, keel, etc.) to be higher in the center than at the ends
  2. to trim (a horse's mane) in order to make it bristly
  3. ☆ Slang to grab greedily; take all of or an unfair share of

intransitive verb

to be higher in the center than at the ends, as the bottom of a ship

hog Idioms

go (the) whole hog

Slang to go all the way; do or accept something fully

high on the hog

or high off the hog☆

Informal in a luxurious or costly way

hog wild

☆

Informal highly excited; without moderation or restraint

hog Synonyms

hog

n.

  1. A pig

    swine, sow, boar, shoat, razorback, wild boar, wart hog, babirusa, truffle pig, peccary, collared peccary, white-lipped peccary, porker*, piggy*, pork*, cob-roller*, scrub*, runt*; see also animal 1.

    Breeds of hogs include: Duroc, Duroc-Jersey, Hampshire, Berkshire, Gloucester Old Spot, Landrace, Chester White, Poland China, Tamworth, Lincolnshire, Cumberland, Essex, Wessex Saddleback, large white, Large Yorkshire, miniature pig, Vietnamese potbellied pig.

  2. A person whose habits resemble a pig's

    pig, selfish person, filthy person; see glutton, slob.

go (the) whole hog*

go all the way, do something fully, complete something; see achieve 1.

high on the hog*

luxurious, extravagant, rich; see expensive.

hog Usage Examples

Object

  • limelight: He put Richard, his backward brother, in the shade and hogged the limelight for the rest of his life.
  • truss: There isn't a hogging truss to be seen on this boat.
  • headline: No doubt the London Olympics will be hogging the sponsorship headlines for the next five or six years.
  • bandwidth: Just looking through his start up group showed four different flavors of spyware, hogging yet more bandwidth.
  • lane: They are fed up with having their busses held up by all the other traffic hogging the bus lanes.

Converse of object

  • go: Shame they didn't go the whole hog & do a DTS release.

Adjective modifier

  • whole: Shame they didn't go the whole hog & do a DTS release.
  • giant: In this area one gets a better opportunity to see the giant forest hog.
  • wild: Pat Robertson, ' Hunting " humongous " wild hogs, ' The State ( Sunday November 10, 1996 ).
  • fat: Seventy fat hogs made in 4 months, 106 large loads of fine dung.

Modifies a noun

  • roast: Sat 26th Today is hog roast, & I am helping at pp stall.
  • deer: Ecology of the hog deer in Royal Chitwan National Park, Nepal.
  • pudding: The shop also sells a range of sausages and traditional black and hogs puddings.
  • brush: The very best hog brushes have over 80 % flagged bristles.
  • farm: In the early 1970's, nearly all hog farms had fewer than 200 head.

Noun used with modifier

  • wart: Andy keeps a wart hog that he only lets out at night, its a noisy bugger 13.
  • bandwidth: In other words, it is a bandwidth hog.
  • forest: In this area one gets a better opportunity to see the giant forest hog.
  • lane: Toward the right of the image is an early middle lane hog.
  • memory: This isn't a major memory hog on a small stand-alone host.
hog Quotes

One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk purse out of your wife's ear.

—Michael) pseudonym Beachcomber

Hog Butcher for the World, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of the Big Shoulders.

—Sandburg, Carl

He is a rarity which I cannot but be fond of, as one would be of a hog that could fiddle, or a singing owl.

—Rochester,JohnWilmot, 2nd Earl of

That man must be very much absorbed in reflection, or stupid, or sulky, or unhappy, or a mere hog at his trough, who is not moved to say something when he dines.

—Hunt, (James Henry) Leigh

You can put lipstick on a hog, and it's still a pig.

—Richards, Ann

It was part of theTexas ritual† We know about champagne and caviar but we talk hog and hominy.

—Ferber, Edna

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