hog

• (UK, dialectal) 'og

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

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• Rhymes: -ɒɡ
• Homophone: hogg

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 *kowə- (“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.

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).
   • 2005 April, Live Swine from Canada, Investigation No. 731-TA-1076 (Final), publication 3766, April 2005, U.S. International Trade Commission →ISBN, page I-9:

     Weanlings grow into feeder pigs, and feeder pigs grow into slaughter hogs. […] Ultimately the end use for virtually all pigs and hogs is to be slaughtered for the production of pork and other products.

3. A greedy person; one who refuses to share.
4. (slang) A large motorcycle, particularly a Harley-Davidson.
5. (Britain) A young sheep that has not been shorn.
6. (nautical) A rough, flat scrubbing broom for scrubbing a ship's bottom under water.

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7. A device for mixing and stirring the pulp from which paper is made.
8. (Britain, historical, archaic slang, countable and uncountable) A shilling coin; its value, 12 old pence.
   • 1933, George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London, xxix

     ‘’Ere y’are, the best rig-out you ever ’ad. A tosheroon [half a crown] for the coat, two ’ogs for the trousers, one and a tanner for the boots, and a ’og for the cap and scarf. That’s seven bob.’

   • 1961, Eric Partridge, The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang

     hog (pl hog). A shilling: orig. (ca 1670), c.; in C.19–20, low s.

9. (Britain, historical, obsolete slang, countable and uncountable) A tanner, a sixpence coin; its value.
   • 1961, Eric Partridge, The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang

     hog (pl hog)... 2. In C.18–early 19, occ. a sixpence: also c., whence the U.S. sense. Prob. ex the figure of a hog on a small silver coin.

10. (Britain, historical, obsolete slang, countable and uncountable) A half-crown coin; its value, 30 old pence.
    • 1961, Eric Partridge, The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang

      hog (pl hog)... 3. A half-crown: ca 1860–1910.

• (shilling coins) white hog, black hog

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

1. (transitive) To greedily take more than one's share, to take precedence at the expense of another or others.
   • 2000 DiCamillo, Kate Because of Winn-Dixie, Scholastic Inc., New York, Ch 15:

     The [...] air-conditioning unit didn't work very good, and there was only one fan; and from the minute me and Winn-Dixie got in the library, he hogged it all.

   Hey! Quit hogging all the blankets.

2. (transitive) To clip the mane of a horse, making it short and bristly.

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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).

• (take greedily): bogart

Clipping of quahog

hog (plural hogs)

1. (informal) A quahog (clam)

• GOH, GoH, Goh, OHG, OHG.

• ogge, hogge, hoge, hooge

From Old English hogg, hocg; further etymology is disputed.

• IPA^(key): /hɔɡ/, /hɔːɡ/

hog (plural hogges, genitive hogges)

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

• swine
• pigge

• hoggeshed

• English: hog
• Scots: hog, hogue

• “hogge (n.(1))” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.

• IPA^(key): /hoɡ/

hog (nominative plural hogs)

1. hole