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单词 hog
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hog1/hog/ noun

Brit a castrated male pig raised for slaughter

chiefly NAmer a domestic pig

a warthog or other wild pig

informal a selfish, gluttonous, or filthy person

= hogg

go the whole hog

informal to do something thoroughly

We might as well go the whole hog and hire a limousine

[perhaps from the notion that buying a whole hog was better value than individual cuts. Anecdotes to do with religious prohibitions on eating parts of a hog, which were circumvented if the whole hog was shared, are unlikely sources of origin.]
hoggish adj
hog-like adj
[Old English hogg]

hog2verb trans (hogged, hogging)

informal to appropriate a selfish or excessive share of (something); to monopolize (something)

She hogged the discussion

to cut (a horse's mane) off or short

to cause (something) to arch

hogger noun
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