Hog

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. Any of various mammals of the family Suidae, which includes the domesticated pig as well as wild species, such as the wild boar and the warthog.
  • noun. A domesticated pig weighing over 54 kilograms (120 pounds).
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A self-indulgent, gluttonous, or filthy person.
  • noun. One that uses too much of something.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A young sheep before it has been shorn.
  • noun. The wool from this type of sheep.
  • noun. A big, heavy motorcycle.
  • intransitive verb. To take more than one's share of.
  • intransitive verb. To cause (the back) to arch like that of a hog.
  • intransitive verb. To cut (a horse's mane) short and bristly.
  • intransitive verb. To shred (waste wood, for example) by machine.
  • intransitive verb. To arch upward in the middle. Used of a ship's keel.
  • idiom. (on/off) In a lavish or extravagant manner.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To cut (the hair) short: as, to hog a horse's mane.
  • To scrape (a ship's bottom) under water.
  • To carry on the back.
  • To droop at both ends, so as to resemble in some degree a hog's back in outline: said of the bottom of a ship when in this condition either through faulty construction or from accident.
  • In the manège, to hold or carry the head down, like a hog.
  • In curling, to play, as a stone, with so little force that it does not clear the hog-score.
  • noun. In the game of curling, a stone which does not go over the hog-score; also, the hog-score itself.
  • To act as greedily and as selfishly as a hog in regard to (something); take more than one's share of; appropriate selfishly.
  • noun. A small locomotive used for hauling cars about mines; a hogback locomotive.
  • noun. A machine for grinding logs.
  • noun. In shipbuilding, the condition of being hogged: generally used quantitatively with reference to the amount of deflection from the normal condition. See hog, intransitive verb, 1.
  • noun. A gelded pig; a barrow-pig.
  • noun. An omnivorous non-ruminant mammal of the family Suidœ, suborder Artiodactyla, and order Ungulata; a pig, sow, or boar; a swine.
  • noun. Some animal like or likened to a hog, not of the family Suidœ. See wart-hog, Phacochœrus, peccary, and Dicotyles.
  • noun. A sheep shorn in the first year, or just after the first year; a young sheep.
  • noun. A young colt.
  • noun. A bullock a year old.
  • noun. One who has the characteristics of the hog; a mean, stingy, grasping, gluttonous, or filthy person.
  • noun. Nautical, a sort of scrubbing- broom for scraping a ship's bottom under water.
  • noun. A stirrer or agitator in the pulp-vat of a paper-making plant.
  • noun. A shilling, or perhaps a sixpence.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To become bent upward in the middle, like a hog's back; -- said of a ship broken or strained so as to have this form.
  • transitive verb. To cut short like bristles.
  • transitive verb. To scrub with a hog, or scrubbing broom.
  • noun. A quadruped of the genus Sus, and allied genera of Suidæ; esp., the domesticated varieties of Sus scrofa, kept for their fat and meat, called, respectively, lard and pork; swine; porker; specifically, a castrated boar; a barrow.
  • noun. A mean, filthy, or gluttonous fellow.
  • noun. A young sheep that has not been shorn.
  • noun. A rough, flat scrubbing broom for scrubbing a ship's bottom under water.
  • noun. A device for mixing and stirring the pulp of which paper is made.
  • noun. See under Bush, Ground, etc.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. the larva of the green grapevine sphinx; -- so called because the head and first three segments are much smaller than those behind them, so as to make a resemblance to a hog's snout. See Hawk moth.
  • noun. an epidemic contagious fever of swine, attended by liquid, fetid, diarrhea, and by the appearance on the skin and mucous membrane of spots and patches of a scarlet, purple, or black color. It is fatal in from one to six days, or ends in a slow, uncertain recovery.
  • noun. the axis deer.
  • cross-reference
    Equivalent
    groundhog  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Hogg  Og  Ogg  Prague  Prolog  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    boar  cattle  deer  elk  fox  
    Synonym
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    variant
    hogged  hogging  
    verb-form
    hogged  hogging  hogs