Definitions for hog
hɔg, hɒghog

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:1.0 / 1 vote

1. hog, pignoun

   a person regarded as greedy and pig-like

2. hog, hogget, hoggnoun

   a sheep up to the age of one year; one yet to be sheared

3. hog, pig, grunter, squealer, Sus scrofaverb

   domestic swine

4. hogverb

   take greedily; take more than one's share

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. hognoun

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

2. hognoun

   A greedy person; one who refuses to share.

3. hognoun

   A large motorcycle, particularly a Harley-Davidson.

4. hogverb

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

5. hogverb

   To clip the mane of a horse, making it short and bristly.

6. hogverb

   To cause the keel of a ship to arch upwards (the opposite of sag).

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. HOGnoun

   Etymology: hwch, Welsh.

   1. The general name of swine.

   This will raise the price of hogs, if we grow all to be pork-eaters. William Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice.

   The hog, that plows not nor obeys thy call,
   Lives on the labours of this Lord of all. Alexander Pope.

   2. A castrated boar.3. To bring Hogs to a fair market. To fail of one’s design.

   You have brought your hogs to a fair market. Spectator.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. hog

   A hog is a general term for a domestic pig, especially a mature one that is typically kept for production of meat, for its bristles, or for the use of its fat. It is used primarily in North America but can also refer to any form of large mammal in a non-specific context. The term may also refer to certain machines or vehicles such as a motorcycle or a type of share in a plow.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Hognoun

   a quadruped of the genus Sus, and allied genera of Suidae; esp., the domesticated varieties of S. scrofa, kept for their fat and meat, called, respectively, lard and pork; swine; porker; specifically, a castrated boar; a barrow

2. Hognoun

   a mean, filthy, or gluttonous fellow

3. Hognoun

   a young sheep that has not been shorn

4. Hognoun

   a rough, flat scrubbing broom for scrubbing a ship's bottom under water

5. Hognoun

   a device for mixing and stirring the pulp of which paper is made

6. Hogverb

   to cut short like bristles; as, to hog the mane of a horse

7. Hogverb

   to scrub with a hog, or scrubbing broom

8. Hogverb

   to become bent upward in the middle, like a hog's back; -- said of a ship broken or strained so as to have this form

9. Etymology: [Prob. akin to E. hack to cut, and meaning orig., a castrated boar; cf. also W. hwch swine, sow, Armor. houc'h, hoc'h. Cf. Haggis, Hogget, and Hoggerel.]

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Hog

   hog, n. a general name for swine: a castrated boar: a pig: formerly slang for a shilling: a low filthy fellow.—v.t. to cut short the hair of:—pr.p. hog′ging; pa.p. hogged.—ns. Hog′-back, Hog's′-back, a back rising in the middle: a ridge of a hill of such shape—also Horseback; Hog′gery, hoggishness of character: coarseness; Hog′get, a boar of the second year: a sheep or colt after it has passed its first year.—adj. Hog′gish, resembling a hog: brutish: filthy: selfish.—adv. Hog′gishly.—ns. Hog′gishness; Hog′hood, the nature of a hog; Hog′-mane, a horse's mane clipped short; Hog′-pen, a pig-sty; Hog′-plum, a West Indian tree of the cashew family, the fruit given to hogs; Hog′-reeve, -con′stable, an officer charged with the care of stray swine; Hog′-ring′er, one who puts rings into the snouts of hogs; Hog's′-bean, the henbane.—v.t. Hog′-shou′ther (Scot.), to jostle with the shoulder.—ns. Hog′-skin, leather made of the skin of swine; Hog's′-lard, the melted fat of the hog; Hog′-wash, the refuse of a kitchen, brewery, &c.—Bring one's hogs to a fine market, to make a complete mess of something; Go the whole hog, to do a thing thoroughly or completely, to commit one's self to anything unreservedly. [M. E. hogge, a gelded hog, prob. from hack, to cut; others derive from W. hwch, a sow, Bret. houch, hoch.]

2. Hog

   hog, v.i. to droop at both ends.—n. Hog′-frame, a fore-and-aft frame serving to resist vertical flexure in a ship.—adj. Hogged, of a ship, having a droop at the ends.

3. Hog

   hog, n. in curling, a stone which does not pass the hog-score.—v.t. to play such a shot with a curling-stone.—n. Hog′-score, a line drawn across the rink at a certain distance from the tees—to be cleared, else the shot does not count. [Prob. conn. with hog, a swine.]

4. Hog

   Hogg, hog, n. a young sheep of the second year.—Also Hog′gerel.

The New Hacker's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. hog

   1. Favored term to describe programs or hardware that seem to eat far more than their share of a system's resources, esp. those which noticeably degrade interactive response. Not used of programs that are simply extremely large or complex or that are merely painfully slow themselves. More often than not encountered in qualified forms, e.g., memory hog, core hog, hog the processor, hog the disk. “A controller that never gives up the I/O bus gets killed after the bus-hog timer expires.” 2. Also said of people who use more than their fair share of resources (particularly disk, where it seems that 10% of the people use 90% of the disk, no matter how big the disk is or how many people use it). Of course, once disk hogs fill up one filesystem, they typically find some other new one to infect, claiming to the sysadmin that they have an important new project to complete.

Dictionary of Nautical TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. hog

   A kind of rough, flat scrubbing broom, serving to scrape a ship's bottom under water, particularly in the act of boot-topping (which see); formed by inclosing a multitude of short twigs of birch, or the like, between two pieces of plank, which are firmly attached to each other; the ends of the twigs are then cut off even, so as to form a brush of considerable extent. To this is fitted a long staff, together with two ropes, the former of which is used to thrust the hog under the ship's bottom, and the latter to guide and pull it up again close to the planks, so as to rub off all the dirt. This work is usually performed in the ship's boat.

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1. OHG

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of hog in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of hog in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of hog in a Sentence

1. Venus Williams:

   I just tried not to go too big, because I can go so big and I have a lot of power and it's not always easy to control it, so I'm trying to play smart instead of going hog wild, which is extremely easy to do.

2. Winifred Hamilton:

   The industrial farming and hog farms use a lot of antibiotics. It's how Deputy Communications Director Bridget Munger get growth hormones and get lots of animals fat quickly.

3. Jim Monroe:

   This is not milk that can be spilled or crops that can be dug under, these are live animals, and there's very few options if they can't get them to market, hog values have dropped to virtually zero and Jim Monroe've got farmers in financial crisis.

4. Will Rogers:

   We are sure living in a peculiar time. You get more for not working than you will for working, and more for not raising a hog than for raising it.

5. Tom Hanks:

   I'm not trying to hog it with a copyright, it's good to be back.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=hog
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Hog
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=hog
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hog
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=hog
7. ^ The New Hacker's Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3008/3008-h/3008-h.htm#Hog
8. ^ Dictionary of Nautical Terms
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26000/pg26000-images.html#:~:text=hog