Definitions and meaning of hog
hog
English
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /hɒɡ/
- (US) IPA(key): /hɑɡ/, /hɔɡ/
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- Rhymes: -ɒɡ
- Homophone: hogg
Etymology 1
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”).
Noun
hog (plural hogs)
- Any animal belonging to the Suidae family of mammals, especially the pig, the warthog, and the boar.
- (specifically) An adult swine (contrasted with a pig, a young swine).
- (informal) A greedy person or thing; one who refuses to share; a gluttonous one.
- Synonyms: pig; see also Thesaurus:glutton
- resource hog
- (slang) A large motorcycle, particularly a Harley-Davidson.
- (UK) A young sheep that has not been shorn.
- (nautical) 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.
- (UK, historical, archaic slang, countable and uncountable) A shilling coin; its value, 12 old pence.
- (UK, historical, obsolete slang, countable and uncountable) A tanner, a sixpence coin; its value.
- (UK, historical, obsolete slang, countable and uncountable) A half-crown coin; its value, 30 old pence.
- (nautical) The effect of the middle of the hull of a ship rising while the ends droop.
- (vulgar) A penis.
Hyponyms
- (shilling coins) white hog, black hog
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Descendants
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Verb
hog (third-person singular simple present hogs, present participle hogging, simple past and past participle hogged)
- (transitive, informal) To greedily take more than one's share, to take precedence at the expense of another or others.
- (transitive) To clip the mane of a horse, making it short and bristly.
- (nautical) To scrub with a hog, or scrubbing broom.
- (transitive, nautical) To cause the keel of a ship to arch upwards (the opposite of sag).
- (machining) To take a rough cut, quickly removing material; to hog out.
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Etymology 2
Verb
hog (third-person singular simple present hogs, present participle hogging, simple past and past participle hogged)
- (transitive) To process (bark, etc.) into hog fuel.
Derived terms
Etymology 3
Clipping of quahog
Noun
hog (plural hogs)
- (informal) A quahog (clam).
Anagrams
- GOH, GoH, Goh, OHG, OHG., gho
Middle English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Inherited from Old English hogg, hocg; further etymology is disputed.
Pronunciation
Noun
hog (plural hogges, genitive hogges)
- A pig or swine, especially one that is castrated and male.
- Synonyms: pigge, swyn
- The meat of swine or pigs.
- Synonyms: pigge, swyn
- A hogget or young sheep.
Derived terms
Descendants
- English: hog
- Scots: hog, hogue
- Yola: hog
References
- “hogge, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.
Old English
Noun
hōg m
- alternative form of hōh
Volapük
Pronunciation
Noun
hog (nominative plural hogs)
- hole
Declension
Yola
Etymology
From Middle English hog, from Old English hogg, hocg.
Pronunciation
Noun
hog
- hog
Derived terms
References
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 106
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