Hog

  • 31hog — [OE] Hog generally means ‘pig’, of course, and has done so since the late Old English period, but it is also a technical term used by farmers and stockmen for a ‘young sheep before its first sheering’, a usage which seems to go back at least to… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 32hog — noun 1》 a pig, especially a castrated male reared for slaughter. 2》 informal a greedy person. 3》 informal a large motorcycle. 4》 (also hogg) dialect a young sheep before the first shearing. verb (hogs, hogging, hogged) 1》 informal take or hoard… …

    English new terms dictionary

  • 33hog — n 1. pig, sow, boar, razorback; peccary, wart hog, babirusa; porker, grunter, oinker, tusker; swine, barrow; shoat, shote, piglet, pigling, piggy, suckling pig, hogling. 2.Informal. a. glutton, cormorant, gourmand, eater; trencherman, big eater,… …

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  • 34hog — [hɒg] noun [C] American I a pig • go the whole hog informal to do something in a very thorough or enthusiastic way[/ex] II verb [T] informal hog [hɒg] to take or use a lot of something in a way that prevents other people from having it …

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  • 35hog — [[t]hɔg, hɒg[/t]] n. v. hogged, hog•ging 1) ahb. a domesticated swine, Sus scrofa; pig 2) ahb. a domesticated swine weighing 120 lb. (54 kg) or more, raised for market 3) mam any of various hoofed, even toed mammals of the Old World family Suidae …

    From formal English to slang

  • 36hog — [OE] Hog generally means ‘pig’, of course, and has done so since the late Old English period, but it is also a technical term used by farmers and stockmen for a ‘young sheep before its first sheering’, a usage which seems to go back at least to… …

    Word origins

  • 37HOG — Die Abkürzung HOG steht für: Flughafen Holguín in Kuba (IATA Code) Harley Davidson Owners Group Heimatortsgemeinschaft Hermann Oberth Gesellschaft den Bereich Gaststätten der Handelsorganisation der DDR Histograms of oriented gradients, ein… …

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  • 38hog — 1. noun /hɒɡ,hɑɡ,hɔːɡ/ a) Any animal belonging to the Suidae family of mammals, especially the pig, the wart hog, and the boar. b) A greedy person; one who refuses to share. 2. verb /hɒɡ,hɑɡ,hɔːɡ/ …

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  • 39hog — verb Hog is used with these nouns as the object: ↑bathroom, ↑headline, ↑limelight, ↑spotlight …

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  • 40hog — Synonyms and related words: adopt, appropriate, arrogate, assume, barrow, belly god, boar, careerist, colonize, conquer, cormorant, corner, egotist, engross, enslave, forestall, fortune hunter, gilt, glutton, gorger, gormand, gormandizer,… …

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