Hog

Quick meaning: Hog is a noun meaning Any animal belonging to the Suidae family of mammals, especially the pig, the warthog, and the boar.

Meaning

Any animal belonging to the Suidae family of mammals, especially the pig, the warthog, and the boar.

More Meanings

1. (specifically) An adult swine (contrasted with a pig, a young swine).
2. (informal) A greedy person or thing; one who refuses to share; a gluttonous one.
3. (UK) A young sheep that has not been shorn.
4. (nautical) A rough, flat scrubbing broom for scrubbing a ship's bottom under water.
5. A device for mixing and stirring the pulp from which paper is made.
6. (UK, historical, archaic slang, countable and uncountable) A shilling coin; its value, 12 old pence.
7. (slang) A large motorcycle, particularly a Harley-Davidson.

Example Sentences

resource hog

Yeah, whatever you old dried up fat hog.

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

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

Word Forms

• hogs
• hogging
• hogged

Synonyms for hog

Depending on context, synonyms include bogart, pig, belly-god, buzgut, cormorant, epicure.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pig, hogg, hogget, razorback, porcine, piggy.

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