hog

The definition of a hog is an adult pig.

(noun)

An example of a hog is a pig that is being sold for pork.

Hog is defined as a selfish or very dirty person, or is slang for a large motorcycle.

(noun)

  1. An example of a hog is someone eating the last of the food, their third helping, before others have had a chance to have any of the food.
  2. An example of a hog is a Harley-Davidson.

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See hog in Webster's New World College Dictionary

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

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

transitive verb hogged, hogging

    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
  1. to trim (a horse's mane) in order to make it bristly
  2. 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

See hog in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun
  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 hogg
    a. Chiefly British A young sheep before it has been shorn.
    b. The wool from this type of sheep.
  4. Slang A big, heavy motorcycle.
verb hogged hogged, hog·ging, hogs hogs
verb, transitive
  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.
verb, intransitive
Nautical To arch upward in the middle. Used of a ship's keel.

Origin:

Origin: Middle English

Origin: , from Old English hogg, possibly of Celtic origin; see sū- in Indo-European roots

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