hog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɒɡ/
ipa: /hɑɡ/
ipa: /hɔɡ/
rhymes: -ɒɡ
homophone: hogg
Forms: form: hogs
form: 'og
Etymology: 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”).
Senses: glosses: Any animal belonging to the Suidae family of mammals, especially the pig, the warthog, and the boar.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 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:
glosses: An adult swine (contrasted with a pig, a young swine).
examples: text: resource hog
text: Since the latest upgrade, this program has turned into a CPU hog.
text: Yeah, whatever you old dried up fat hog.
ref: 1998 June 3, “Conjoined Fetus Lady”, in South Park, season 2, episode 5:
synonyms: word: pig
word: belly-god
word: buzgut
word: cormorant
word: epicure
word: gannet
word: glutton
word: gorger
word: gourmand
word: gormandizer
word: greedyguts
word: guttle
word: hog
word: Homer Simpson
word: helluo
word: pig
word: slow belly
word: trencherman
glosses: A greedy person or thing; one who refuses to share; a gluttonous one.
examples: text: […] 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.
ref: 2021 August 1, Phil Copsey, The Calibre of Justice: Book 2 of the Tony Signorotto Series, in case of emergency press:
text: […] bike balanced almost vertically while coasting to a nearly complete stop; […] ride that hog one hundred miles an hour up and off a ramp, […]
ref: 2023 July 11, Jake Tapper, All the Demons Are Here: A Thriller, Little, Brown, →ISBN:
glosses: A large motorcycle, particularly a Harley-Davidson.
glosses: A young sheep that has not been shorn.
examples: text: 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 of boot-topping. 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.
ref: 1813, John Mason Good, Olinthus Gilbert Gregory, Newton Bosworth, Pantologia. A new (cabinet) cyclopædia, volume 5, T. Davison, Lombard street, Whitefriars, page 11:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A rough, flat scrubbing broom for scrubbing a ship's bottom under water.
glosses: A device for mixing and stirring the pulp from which paper is made.
examples: text: “’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.”
ref: 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:
text: hog (pl hog). A shilling: orig. (ca 1670), c.; in C.19–20, low s.
ref: 1961, Eric Partridge, The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang:
glosses: A shilling coin; its value, 12 old pence.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1961, Eric Partridge, The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang:
glosses: A tanner, a sixpence coin; its value.
examples: text: hog (pl hog)... 3. A half-crown: ca 1860–1910.
ref: 1961, Eric Partridge, The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang:
glosses: A half-crown coin; its value, 30 old pence.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1920, The Records of the Proceedings and the Printed Papers, Parliamentary paper:
text: On inspection it was found that the vessel's keel had a hog of nearly fourteen inches.
ref: 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:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The effect of the middle of the hull of a ship rising while the ends droop.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1996, S. Joseph Krol, Northbridge High Football Camp, GMP Publishers, →ISBN, page 9:
text: 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.
ref: 2003, Sonya Harris, Guilty Pleasures, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 77:
glosses: A penis.
Hyponyms: sense: shilling coins
word: white hog
word: black hog
Derived terms: ball hog
bleed like a stuck hog
bush hog
Catahoula hog dog
corn-hog ratio
crank one's hog
crank the hog
earthhog
gas-hog
giant forest hog
go the whole hog
go whole hog
groundhog
ground-hog
ground hog
hedgehog
hedge-hog
high off the hog
high on the hog
hog age
hog-ape
hog apple
hog-babe
hogbacked
hogback
Hog's Back
hog badger
hog-baying
hog bed
hog-beetle
hogberry
hogboat
hog bull
hog call
hog caller
hog calling
hog caterpillar
hogchain
hog chain
hogchoke
hogchoker
hog cholera
hog cistern
hog colt
hog constable
hog-corn ratio
hogcote
hog cote
hog deer
hog-dogging
hog-face
hog-faced ape
hog farm
hog farmer
hog fat
hog feast
hog fennel
hog fever
hog-fever
hogfish
hog flu
hogframe
hoggard
hogger
hoggery
hoggish
hoggishly
hoggishness
hoggism
hog grass
hog gum
hog-gum
hog gum tree
hoggy
hoghead
hog heaven
hogherd
hoghide
hoghood
hoghouse
hog island
hog jaw
hog Latin
hog leg
hogleg
hogless
hoglet
hoglike
hog line
hog line violation
hogling
hog loom
hog-loom
hogman
hogmane
hog-maned
hog maw
hog millet
hog molly
hog money
hog-monkey
hog-Morse
hog mouse
hognose
hog-nosed skunk
hognut
hog peanut
hogpen
hog-pen
hog-plague
hog plague
hog-plum
hog plum
hog potato
hog pox
hog-rabbit
hog-rat
hog-reeve
hog reeve
hogreeve
hog rifle
hogringer
hog-ring
hog ring
hog rubber
hog-rubber
hog rump
hog scraper
hogshead
hogshit
hogskin
hog-slip
hog stag
hogsty
hogsucker
hog tapir
hog-tie
hog tight
hog-tight
hog-tooth spar
hog town
hog train
hog-train
hog tub
hog-tub
hog waller
hog-wallow
hog wallow
hog-wallowing
hogward
hogwash
hogweed
hog-whimpering
hog-wild
hogwort
hogyard
Hoover hog
horned hog
hungry as a hog
Indian hog deer
Indochinese hog deer
Kitti's hog-nosed bat
left lane hog
Mexican hog
on the hog
on the hog train
pygmy hog
red river hog
resource hog
right lane hog
river hog
road-hog
road hog
sand hog
sand-hog
sandhog
sea hog
sea-hog
shear hog
stag hog
thornhog
truffle hog
useless as tits on a boar hog
warthog
water hog
werehog
whole hog