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hog¹

  • /hɒɡ/ UK
  • /hɔɡ/ US
  • /hɑɡ/ US, cot caught merger

Sounds like hogg · Rhymes with -ɒɡ

Where it comes from

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”).

noun hogs · 'og

  1. Any animal belonging to the Suidae family of mammals, especially the pig, the warthog, and the boar.
  2. 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.
  3. figuratively, informal A greedy person or thing; one who refuses to share; a gluttonous one. resource hog
  4. 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.
  5. UK A young sheep that has not been shorn.
  6. 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 of
  7. A device for mixing and stirring the pulp from which paper is made.
  8. 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.”
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.

verb hogs · hogging · hogged · 'og

  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.
  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.
  3. transitive (of a hedge) to trim up closely
  4. To scrub with a hog, or scrubbing broom.
  5. 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 and
  6. To take a rough cut, quickly removing material; to hog out.

hog²

  • /hɒɡ/ UK
  • /hɔɡ/ US
  • /hɑɡ/ US, cot caught merger

Sounds like hogg · Rhymes with -ɒɡ

verb hogs · hogging · hogged · 'og

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

hog³

  • /hɒɡ/ UK
  • /hɔɡ/ US
  • /hɑɡ/ US, cot caught merger

Sounds like hogg · Rhymes with -ɒɡ

Where it comes from

Clipping of quahog.

noun hogs · 'og

  1. informal A quahog (clam).

HOG⁴

proper noun

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

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