English Explanatory Dictionary

hog

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any animal belonging to the Suidae family of mammals, especially the pig, the warthog, and the boar.
  2. An adult swine (contrasted with a pig, a young swine).
  3. A greedy person or thing; one who refuses to share; a gluttonous one.
  4. A large motorcycle, particularly a Harley-Davidson.
  5. A young sheep that has not been shorn.
  6. A rough, flat scrubbing broom for scrubbing a ship's bottom under water.
  7. A device for mixing and stirring the pulp from which paper is made.
  8. A shilling coin; its value, 12 old pence.
  9. A tanner, a sixpence coin; its value.
  10. A half-crown coin; its value, 30 old pence.
  11. The effect of the middle of the hull of a ship rising while the ends droop.
  12. A penis.
verb
  1. To greedily take more than one's share, to take precedence at the expense of another or others.
  2. To clip the mane of a horse, making it short and bristly.
  3. (of a hedge) to trim up closely
  4. To scrub with a hog, or scrubbing broom.
  5. To cause the keel of a ship to arch upwards (the opposite of sag).
  6. To take a rough cut, quickly removing material; to hog out.
verb
  1. To process (bark, etc.) into hog fuel.
noun
  1. A quahog (clam).
name
  1. Abbreviation of histogram of oriented gradients.

Pronunciation

/hɒɡ/ /hɔɡ/ /hɑɡ/ En-us-hog.ogg

Word forms

hog hogs 'og hogging hogged

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”).

Synonyms

pig belly-god buzgut cormorant epicure gannet glutton gorger gourmand gormandizer greedyguts guttle hog Homer Simpson helluo slow belly trencherman bogart

Derived words

ball hog bleed like a stuck hog bush hog Catahoula hog dog corn-hog ratio crank one's hog crank the hog earthhog gas-hog giant forest hog go the whole hog go whole hog groundhog ground-hog ground hog hedgehog hedge-hog high off the hog high on the hog hog age hog-ape hog apple hog-babe hogbacked hogback Hog's Back hog badger hog-baying hog bed hog-beetle hogberry hogboat hog bull hog call hog caller hog calling hog caterpillar hogchain hog chain hogchoke hogchoker hog cholera hog cistern hog colt hog constable hog-corn ratio hogcote hog cote hog deer hog-dogging hog-face hog-faced ape hog farm hog farmer hog fat hog feast hog fennel hog fever hog-fever hogfish

Translations

Russian: ко́ротко подстригать
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