hog

• 'og (UK, dialectal)

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /hɒɡ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /hɑɡ/, /hɔɡ/

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• Rhymes: -ɒɡ
• Homophone: hogg

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”).

hog (plural hogs)

1. Any animal belonging to the Suidae family of mammals, especially the pig, the warthog, and the boar.
2. (specifically) An adult swine (contrasted with a pig, a young swine).
   • 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:

     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. (informal) A greedy person or thing; one who refuses to share; a gluttonous one.

   Synonyms: pig; see also Thesaurus:glutton

   resource hog

   Since the latest upgrade, this program has turned into a CPU hog.

   • 1998 June 3, “Conjoined Fetus Lady”, in South Park, season 2, episode 5:

     Yeah, whatever you old dried up fat hog.

4. (slang) A large motorcycle, particularly a Harley-Davidson.
   • 2021 August 1, Phil Copsey, The Calibre of Justice: Book 2 of the Tony Signorotto Series, in case of emergency press:

     […] 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.

   • 2023 July 11, Jake Tapper, All the Demons Are Here: A Thriller, Little, Brown, →ISBN:

     […] bike balanced almost vertically while coasting to a nearly complete stop; […] ride that hog one hundred miles an hour up and off a ramp, […]

5. (UK) A young sheep that has not been shorn.
6. (nautical) A rough, flat scrubbing broom for scrubbing a ship's bottom under water.
   • 1813, John Mason Good, Olinthus Gilbert Gregory, Newton Bosworth, Pantologia. A new (cabinet) cyclopædia, volume 5, T. Davison, Lombard street, Whitefriars, page 11:

     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.

7. A device for mixing and stirring the pulp from which paper is made.
8. (UK, historical, archaic slang, countable and uncountable) A shilling coin; its value, 12 old pence.
   • 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:

     “’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.”

   • 1961, Eric Partridge, The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang:

     hog (pl hog). A shilling: orig. (ca 1670), c.; in C.19–20, low s.

9. (UK, historical, obsolete slang, countable and uncountable) A tanner, a sixpence coin; its value.
   • 1961, Eric Partridge, The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang:

     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, historical, obsolete slang, countable and uncountable) A half-crown coin; its value, 30 old pence.
    • 1961, Eric Partridge, The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang:

      hog (pl hog)... 3. A half-crown: ca 1860–1910.

11. (nautical) The effect of the middle of the hull of a ship rising while the ends droop.
    • 1920, The Records of the Proceedings and the Printed Papers, Parliamentary paper:

      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.

    • 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:

      On inspection it was found that the vessel's keel had a hog of nearly fourteen inches.

12. (vulgar) A penis.
    • 1996, S. Joseph Krol, Northbridge High Football Camp‎^[1], GMP Publishers, →ISBN, page 9:

      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.

    • 2003, Sonya Harris, Guilty Pleasures‎^[2], Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 77:

      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.

• (shilling coins) white hog, black hog

• Sranan Tongo: agu

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

1. (transitive, informal) To greedily take more than one's share, to take precedence at the expense of another or others.

   Hey! Quit hogging all the blankets.

   • 2000, Kate DiCamillo, chapter 15, in Because of Winn-Dixie, New York: Scholastic Inc.:

     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.

2. (transitive) To clip the mane of a horse, making it short and bristly.
   • 1880, William Day, The Racehorse in Training:

     Some, perhaps, would wish to plait or shave the tail and crimp or hog the mane to complete the picture.

3. (nautical) To scrub with a hog, or scrubbing broom.
4. (transitive, nautical) To cause the keel of a ship to arch upwards (the opposite of sag).
   • 1991, J. E. Gordon, Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down, Penguin UK, →ISBN, page 52:

     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 the middle of the hull tends to rise).

   • 2013, H. I. Lavery, Shipboard Operations, Routledge, →ISBN, page 267:

     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.

5. (machining) To take a rough cut, quickly removing material; to hog out.

• (take greedily): bogart

• hog up

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.

• unhogged

Clipping of quahog

hog (plural hogs)

1. (informal) A quahog (clam)

• GOH, GoH, Goh, OHG, OHG., gho

• hoge, hogge, hooge, ogge

Inherited from Old English hogg, hocg; further etymology is disputed.

• IPA^(key): /hɔɡ/, /hɔːɡ/

hog (plural hogges, genitive hogges)

1. A pig or swine, especially one that is castrated and male.

   Synonyms: pigge, swyn

2. The meat of swine or pigs.

   Synonyms: pigge, swyn

3. A hogget or young sheep.

• hoggeshed

• English: hog
• Scots: hog, hogue
• Yola: hog

• “hogge, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.

hōg m

1. Alternative form of hōh

• IPA^(key): /hoɡ/

hog (nominative plural hogs)

1. hole

From Middle English hog, from Old English hogg, hocg.

• IPA^(key): /hɔɡ/

hog

1. hog
   • 1867, “ABOUT AN OLD SOW GOING TO BE KILLED”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 2, page 106:

     Ich aam a vat hog it's drue. Aar is ken apan aam.

     I am a fat hog, 'tis true. There is ken upon them.

• harnothes

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 106