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Is hog a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word hog is a Scrabble US word. The word hog is worth 7 points in Scrabble:

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Is hog a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word hog is a Scrabble UK word and has 7 points:

H4O1G2

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3-letter words (1 found)

HOG,

2-letter words (3 found)

GO,HO,OH,

You can make 4 words from hog according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 3 letters words made out of hog

hog ohg hgo gho ogh goh

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Definitions and meaning of hog

hog

Alternative forms

  • 'og (UK, dialectal)

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /hɒɡ/
  • (US) IPA(key): /hɑɡ/, /hɔɡ/
  • 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)

  1. Any animal belonging to the Suidae family of mammals, especially the pig, the warthog, and the boar.
  2. (specifically) An adult swine (contrasted with a pig, a young swine).
  3. (informal) A greedy person or thing; one who refuses to share.
    resource hog
  4. (slang) A large motorcycle, particularly a Harley-Davidson.
  5. (UK) A young sheep that has not been shorn.
  6. (nautical) 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. (UK, historical, archaic slang, countable and uncountable) A shilling coin; its value, 12 old pence.
  9. (UK, historical, obsolete slang, countable and uncountable) A tanner, a sixpence coin; its value.
  10. (UK, historical, obsolete slang, countable and uncountable) A half-crown coin; its value, 30 old pence.
  11. (nautical) The effect of the middle of the hull of a ship rising while the ends droop.
  12. (vulgar) A penis.
Hyponyms
  • (shilling coins) white hog, black hog
Derived terms
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Verb

hog (third-person singular simple present hogs, present participle hogging, simple past and past participle hogged)

  1. (transitive, informal) To greedily take more than one's share, to take precedence at the expense of another or others.
  2. (transitive) To clip the mane of a horse, making it short and bristly.
  3. (nautical) To scrub with a hog, or scrubbing broom.
  4. (transitive, nautical) To cause the keel of a ship to arch upwards (the opposite of sag).
  5. (machining) To take a rough cut, quickly removing material; to hog out.
Synonyms
  • (take greedily): bogart
Translations

Etymology 2

Verb

hog (third-person singular simple present hogs, present participle hogging, simple past and past participle hogged)

  1. (transitive) To process (bark, etc.) into hog fuel.
Derived terms
  • unhogged

Etymology 3

Clipping of quahog

Noun

hog (plural hogs)

  1. (informal) A quahog (clam)

Anagrams

  • GOH, GoH, Goh, OHG, OHG., gho

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • hoge, hogge, hooge, ogge

Etymology

Inherited from Old English hogg, hocg; further etymology is disputed.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /hɔɡ/, /hɔːɡ/

Noun

hog (plural hogges, genitive hogges)

  1. A pig or swine, especially one that is castrated and male.
    Synonyms: pigge, swyn
  2. The meat of swine or pigs.
    Synonyms: pigge, swyn
  3. A hogget or young sheep.

Related terms

  • hoggeshed

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.

Volapük

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /hoɡ/

Noun

hog (nominative plural hogs)

  1. hole

Declension

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English hog, from Old English hogg, hocg.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /hɔɡ/

Noun

hog

  1. hog

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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