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noun
1.
a hoofed mammal of the family Suidae, order Artiodactyla, comprising boars and swine.
2.
a domesticated swine weighing 120 pounds (54 kg) or more, raised for market.
3.
a selfish, gluttonous, or filthy person.
4.
Slang.
a.
a large, heavy motorcycle.
b.
an impressively large luxury automobile.
5.
EXPAND6.
Railroads Slang. a locomotive.
7.
a machine for shredding wood.
8.
COLLAPSECurling. a stone that stops before reaching the hog score.
verb (used with object)
9.
to appropriate selfishly; take more than one's share of.
10.
to arch (the back) upward like that of a hog.
11.
roach3 (def. 3).
12.
(in machine-shop practice) to cut deeply into (a metal bar or slab) to reduce it to a shape suitable for final machining.
13.
to shred (a piece of wood).
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Hogging
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| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
verb (used without object)
Idioms14.
Nautical. (of a hull) to have less than the proper amount of sheer because of structural weakness; arch. Compare sag (def. 6a).
15.
go the whole hog, to proceed or indulge completely and unreservedly: We went the whole hog and took a cruise around the world. Also, go whole hog.
16.
live high off/on the hog, to be in prosperous circumstances. Also, eat high off the hog.
Origin:
1300–50; Middle English; compare Old English hogg- in place-names; perhaps < Celtic; compare Welsh hwch, Cornish hogh swine
1300–50; Middle English; compare Old English hogg- in place-names; perhaps < Celtic; compare Welsh hwch, Cornish hogh swine
Related forms
hog·like, adjective
un·hogged, adjective
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Word Origin & History
hog
c.1175 (implied in hogaster), "swine reared for slaughter" (usually about a year old), also used by stockmen for "young sheep" (c.1350) and for "horse older than one year," suggesting the original sense had something to do with an age, not a type of animal. Not evidenced in O.E., but it may have existed.
EXPANDPossibility of Celtic origin is regarded by OED as "improbable." Fig. sense of "gluttonous person" is first recorded 1436. Meaning "Harley-Davidson motorcycle" is attested from 1967. The verb meaning "to appropriate greedily" is U.S. slang from 1884 (first attested in "Huck Finn"). The verb hog-tie "bind hands and feet" is first recorded 1894. Hog in armor "awkward or clumsy person in ill-fitting attire" is from 1660. Phrase to go the whole hog (1828) is sometimes said to be from the butcher shop option of buying the whole slaughtered animal (at a discount) rather than just the choice bits. But it is perhaps rather from the story (recorded in Eng. from 1779) of Muslim sophists, forbidden by the Quran from eating a certain unnamed part of the hog, who debated which part was intended and managed to exempt the whole of it from the prohibition.
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