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hog
I. \ˈhȯg, -ä-\ noun
(plural hogs also hog)
Usage: often attributive
Etymology: Middle English hogge, from Old English hogg, perhaps of Celtic origin; akin to Welsh hwch hog, Cornish hoch — more at sow
1.
a. : a domestic swine : pig, sow, boar; especially : an adult or a growing animal weighing more than 120 pounds — compare pork
b. Britain : barrow II
c. : a wild boar; broadly : any of various animals of the family Suidae — usually used in combination
< the warthogs and river hogs are tropical relatives of our domestic swine >
2. usually hogg Britain
a. : a young sheep usually less than or about a year in age and not yet shorn; also : wool from such a sheep
b. : a young domestic animal (as a bullock) of similar age — often used in combination
< several good hogg colts >
3. : a person felt to resemble a hog especially in selfishness, gluttony, or filthiness — often used in combination
4. or hogg slang
a. Britain : shilling
b. : dime
5. : a curling stone that fails to pass the hog score
6. : a machine with revolving cutters for reducing bulk material (as waste lumber or animal carcasses) to small bits — called also hogger
7. : a frame of timber or a heavy flat rough broom hauled along a ship's bottom under water to clean it
8. : an agitator for mixing and stirring pulp in papermaking
9. slang : a railroad locomotive
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- on the hog
II. verb
(hogged ; hogged ; hogging ; hogs)
transitive verb
1. : to cut (a horse's mane) short : roach
2. : to clean the bottom of (a ship) with a hog
3.
a. : to cause to arch like the back of a hog
b. : to cause (as a ship or timber) to bow up in the middle and sag at the ends usually as a result of improper loading or supporting
4.
a. Britain : to winter over (young sheep)
b. : to utilize (an unharvested crop) by turning in hogs to feed — often used with down or off
< got a drove of gilts to hog down the corn >
< it would be cheaper to hog off that piece than to harvest it >
5.
a. : to take, grasp, or retain selfishly or in excess of one's due or need
< don't hog the light, I want to read too >
< hogging everything in sight >
b. : to consume voraciously — usually used with down
< hogged down his dinner and rushed out >
< finished the book next day, hogging it down in great gulps — Bruce Marshall >
6. : to play (a curling stone) so as not to pass the hog score
7. : to tear up or shred (bulk material) into bits with a hog
intransitive verb
1. : to become curved upward in the middle like a hog's back — used especially of a ship or its bottom or keel
2. : to act like a hog especially in taking more than one's share |