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hog

UK/hɒɡ//hɔɡ/

hog noun: any animal belonging to the Suidae family of mammals, especially the pig, the warthog, and the boar.

Noun (1)

hog (plural hogs)

  1. Any animal belonging to the Suidae family of mammals, especially the pig, the warthog, and the boar.
    1. (specifically) An adult swine, at or above a certain body weight.
      • 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.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
  2. (figuratively, informal) A greedy person or thing; one who refuses to share; a gluttonous one.
    • resource hog
    • Since the latest upgrade, this program has turned into a CPU hog.
  3. (slang) A large motorcycle, particularly a Harley-Davidson.
    • […] bike. That rider looked relatively young. If he's a Border Force guy just doing a nine to five job back there, I'd like to know where he gets the money to ride that hog,” Max said. “Looks expensive,” Chloe replied.2021 August 1, Phil Copsey, The Calibre of Justice: Book 2 of the Tony Signorotto Series, in case of emergency press
    • […] bike balanced almost vertically while coasting to a nearly complete stop; […] ride that hog one hundred miles an hour up and off a ramp, […]2023 July 11, Jake Tapper, All the Demons Are Here: A Thriller, Little, Brown, →ISBN
  4. (UK) A young sheep that has not been shorn.
  5. A rough, flat scrubbing broom for scrubbing a ship's bottom under water.
    • Hog, on board a ship, is a sort of flat scrubbing-broom, formed by inclosing a number of short twigs of birch or such wood between two pieces of plank fastened together, and cutting off the ends of the twigs. It is used to scrape the filth from a ship's bottom under water, particularly in the act...1813, John Mason Good, Olinthus Gilbert Gregory, Newton Bosworth, Pantologia. A new (cabinet) cyclopædia, volume 5, T. Davison, Lombard street, Whitefriars, page 11
  6. A device for mixing and stirring the pulp from which paper is made.
  7. (UK, archaic, countable, historical, slang, uncountable) A shilling coin; its value, 12 old pence.
    • “’Ere y'are, the best rig-out you ever ’ad. A tosheroon [half a crown]^([sic]) 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.”1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XXIX, in Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz […], →OCLC, pages 214–215
    • hog (pl hog). A shilling: orig. (ca 1670), c.; in C.19–20, low s.1961, Eric Partridge, The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang
  8. (UK, countable, historical, obsolete, slang, uncountable) A tanner, a sixpence coin; its value.
    • 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.1961, Eric Partridge, The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang
  9. (UK, countable, historical, obsolete, slang, uncountable) A half-crown coin; its value, 30 old pence.
    • hog (pl hog)... 3. A half-crown: ca 1860–1910.1961, Eric Partridge, The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang
  10. The effect of the middle of the hull of a ship rising while the ends droop.
    • I would not consider a ship unseaworthy because she had a hog. There is no danger to life in sailing in a hogged ship. I have sailed in vessels having a 2-ft. hog in the keel. The keel has been straightened by being filled in underneath.1920, The Records of the Proceedings and the Printed Papers, Parliamentary paper
    • On inspection it was found that the vessel's keel had a hog of nearly fourteen inches.2007, Charles E. Brodine, Michael J. Crawford, Christine F. Hughes, Interpreting Old Ironsides: An Illustrated Guide to USS Constitution, Government Printing Office, →ISBN, page 84
  11. (vulgar) A penis.
    • He had to piss in the worst way, but the game was in play and there was no way he was going anywhere to relieve himself. It was right in the center of the Armand huddle that he got so desperate he pulled out his hog and let it go.1996, S. Joseph Krol, Northbridge High Football Camp, GMP Publishers, →ISBN, page 9
    • It wasn't like I was about to drop my panties and ride his hog in the basement; I got down and dirty, but not like that; I requested the seclusion of four walls.2003, Sonya Harris, Guilty Pleasures, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 77

Verb (1)

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

  1. (informal, transitive) To greedily take more than one's share, to take precedence at the expense of another or others.
    • Hey! Quit hogging all the blankets.
    • 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.2000, Kate DiCamillo, chapter 15, in Because of Winn-Dixie, New York: Scholastic Inc.
    Synonyms:
    bogart
  2. (transitive) To clip the mane of a horse, making it short and bristly.
    • Some, perhaps, would wish to plait or shave the tail and crimp or hog the mane to complete the picture.1880, William Day, The Racehorse in Training
    1. (transitive) (of a hedge) to trim up closely
  3. To scrub with a hog, or scrubbing broom.
  4. (transitive) To cause the keel of a ship to arch upwards (the opposite of sag).
    • Although most of the buoyancy of a ship is provided by the middle part of the hull and comparatively little by the tapering ends, nothing will ever prevent people from putting heavy weights into the ends of a ship. One result of this is that many vessels tend to 'hog' (the two ends tend to droop...1991, J. E. Gordon, Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down, Penguin UK, →ISBN, page 52
    • Difficulty may be encountered when securing cargo hatches on ships which hog or sag and the water-tight integrity of the ship may be impaired.2013, H. I. Lavery, Shipboard Operations, Routledge, →ISBN, page 267
  5. To take a rough cut, quickly removing material; to hog out.

Verb (2)

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

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

Noun (2)

hog (plural hogs)

  1. (informal) A quahog (clam).

Proper noun capitalized: HOG

HOG

  1. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of histogram of oriented gradients.

hog meaning in Hindi, Gujarati, Tagalog and Arabic

hog in Hindi

animal of the family Suidae
सूअर sūar

hog in Gujarati

હોગ કરવા માટે

hog in Tagalog

animal of the family Suidae
baboy

hog in Arabic

animal of the family Suidae
خِنْزِير ḵinzīr
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hog in Indonesian
babi, moge
hog in Persian
گراز gorâz, خوک xuk
hog in Vietnamese
lợn, heo

Examples of hog in a sentence

  • Yeah, whatever you old dried up fat hog.1998 June 3, “Conjoined Fetus Lady”, in South Park, season 2, episode 5:
  • For this purpose they fit to this broom a long staff with two ropes; one of which is used to thrust the hog under the ship's bottom, and the other to guide and pull it up again close to the planks.1813, John Mason Good, Olinthus Gilbert Gregory, Newton Bosworth, Pantologia. A new (cabinet) cyclopædia, volume 5, T. Davison, Lombard...
  • One result of this is that many vessels tend to 'hog' (the two ends tend to droop and the middle of the hull tends to rise).1991, J. E. Gordon, Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down, Penguin UK, →ISBN, page 52:

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Synonyms of hog

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Forms of hog

Noun
pluralhogs
alternative UK (dialectal)'og
Verb
third-person singular presenthogs
present participlehogging
past participlehogged
pasthogged

Plural of hog: hogs

Origin of hog

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”).

Clipping of quahog.

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Phrases with hog

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Words that rhyme with hog

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Questions about hog

What does hog mean?
Hog means any animal belonging to the Suidae family of mammals, especially the pig, the warthog, and the boar.
What is hog in Hindi?
Hog in Hindi is सूअर (sūar). See Hog meaning in Hindi.
How do you use hog in a sentence?
Yeah, whatever you old dried up fat hog.
What part of speech is hog?
Hog can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce hog?
Hog is pronounced /hɒɡ/ (UK).
What is the plural of hog?
The plural of hog is hogs.

Words near hog in the dictionary

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  3. Hofstra
  4. Hoftijzer
  5. Hofuf
  6. hog
  7. hog age
  8. hog ages
  9. hog apple
  10. hog apples
  11. hog badger

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hog (page history and authors); HOG (page history and authors); hog (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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