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water hog
noun
- informal.a person who uses water selfishly or irresponsibly, esp during a water shortage
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The M'juré, or water hog, was all eaten by hyænas during night; but the buffalo is safe.
They are partly webbed, and thus adapted to the aquatic life it enjoys, and which has gained for it the name of the water-hog.
The water-hog (P. khk-b, Platanista gangetica, the porpoise) is another.
The creature made little or no resistance; and having dragged it up to the fire, we saw that it was a capybara, or water-hog.
Why does it allow a water-hog to fatten at the expense of those whom it holds in its iron grasp?
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