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Definition hog
Etymology 1
From Middle English hog, from Old English hogg, hocg (“hog”), possibly from Old Norse h?ggva (“to strike, chop, cut”), from Proto-Germanic *hawwan? (“to hew, forge”), from Proto-Indo-European *kow?- (“to beat, hew, forge”). Cognate with Old High German houwan, Old Saxon hauwan, Old English h?awan (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.
Noun
hog (plural hogs)
- Any animal belonging to the Suidae family of mammals, especially the pig, the warthog, and the boar.
- (specifically) An adult swine (contrasted with a pig, a young swine).
- A greedy person; one who refuses to share.
- (slang) A large motorcycle, particularly a Harley-Davidson.
- (Britain) A young sheep that has not been shorn.
- (nautical) A rough, flat scrubbing broom for scrubbing a ship's bottom under water.
- A device for mixing and stirring the pulp from which paper is made.
- (Britain, historical, archaic slang, countable and uncountable) A shilling coin; its value, 12 old pence.
- (Britain, historical, obsolete slang, countable and uncountable) A tanner, a sixpence coin; its value.
- (Britain, historical, obsolete slang, countable and uncountable) A half-crown coin; its value, 30 old pence.
Verb
hog (third-person singular simple present hogs, present participle hogging, simple past and past participle hogged)
- (transitive) To greedily take more than one's share, to take precedence at the expense of another or others.
- (transitive) To clip the mane of a horse, making it short and bristly.
- (nautical) To scrub with a hog, or scrubbing broom.
- (transitive, nautical) To cause the keel of a ship to arch upwards (the opposite of sag).
Etymology 2
Clipping of quahog
Noun
hog (plural hogs)
- (informal) A quahog (clam)
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