hog

Meaning

Noun

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; a gluttonous one.
4. (slang) A large motorcycle, particularly a Harley-Davidson.
5. (UK) 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. (UK, archaic, countable, historical, slang, uncountable) A shilling coin; its value, 12 old pence.
9. (UK, countable, historical, obsolete, slang, uncountable) A tanner, a sixpence coin; its value.
10. (UK, countable, historical, obsolete, slang, uncountable) 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. (vulgar) A penis.

Verb

1. (informal, transitive) 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. (transitive) To clip the mane of a horse, making it short and bristly.
4. To scrub with a hog, or scrubbing broom.
5. (transitive) 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

To process (bark, etc.) into hog fuel.

Synonyms

pig

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swine

boar

🐗

pork

hogget

wild boar

sow

grunter

hogg

Sus scrofa

squealer

tortoise

warthog

fish

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hog cadillac

Rama

Sus scrofa domistica

Buddha

dwarf

greedy

hoard

hogging

marsh

monopolize

namely

oaf

porker

Translations

porc

cochon

Schwein

porco

🐖

cerdo

γουρούνι

puerco

🐖

varken

🐖

porco

🐖

porcus

maiale

🐖

zwijn

🐖

porc

🐖

domuz

🐖

Pronounced as (IPA)

/hɒɡ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: hog

Inherited from Old English: hogg

Cognate with Old High German: houwan

Cognate with Old Saxon: hauwan

Cognate with Old English: hēawan

Cognate with Welsh: hwch

Cognate with Cornish: hogh

In summary

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”).