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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

HOG, n.
1. A swine; a general name of that species of animal.
2. In England, a castrated sheep of a year old.
3. A bullock of a year old.
4. A brutal fellow; one who is mean and filthy.
5. Among seamen, a sort of scrubbing-broom for scraping a ship's bottom under water.
HOG, v.t. To scrape a ship's bottom under water.
1. To carry on the back. [Local.]
2. To cut the hair short, like the bristles of a hog. [Local.]
HOG, v.i. To bend, so as to resemble in some degree a hog's back; as, a ship hogs in lanching.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a person regarded as greedy and pig-like [syn: hog, pig]
2: a sheep up to the age of one year; one yet to be sheared [syn: hog, hogget, hogg]
3: domestic swine [syn: hog, pig, grunter, squealer, Sus scrofa] v
1: take greedily; take more than one's share

Merriam Webster's

I. noun (plural hogs; also hog) Etymology: Middle English hogge, from Old English hogg Date: 14th century 1. a domestic swine especially when weighing more than 120 pounds (54 kilograms); broadly any of various wild and domestic swine 2. (usually hogg) British a young unshorn sheep; also wool from such a sheep 3. a. a selfish, gluttonous, or filthy person b. one that uses something to excess <old cars that are gas hogs> II. verb (hogged; hogging) Date: 1769 transitive verb 1. to cut (a horse's mane) short ; roach 2. to cause to arch 3. to take in excess of one's due <hog the credit> 4. to tear up or shred (as waste wood) into bits by machine intransitive verb to become curved upward in the middle — used of a ship's bottom or keel

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & v. --n. 1 a a domesticated pig, esp. a castrated male reared for slaughter. b any of several other pigs of the family Suidae, e.g. a wart-hog. 2 colloq. a greedy person. 3 (also hogg) Brit. dial. a young sheep before the first shearing. --v. (hogged, hogging) 1 tr. colloq. take greedily; hoard selfishly. 2 tr. & intr. raise (the back), or rise in an arch in the centre. Phrases and idioms: go the whole hog colloq. do something completely or thoroughly. hog-tie US 1 secure by fastening the hands and feet or all four feet together. 2 restrain, impede. Derivatives: hogger n. hoggery n. hoggish adj. hoggishly adv. hoggishness n. hoglike adj. Etymology: OE hogg, hocg, perh. of Celt. orig.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Hog Hog, v. i. (Naut.) 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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Hog Hog, n. [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.] 1. (Zo["o]l.) A quadruped of the genus Sus, and allied genera of Suid[ae]; 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. Note: The domestic hogs of Siam, China, and parts of Southern Europe, are thought to have been derived from Sus Indicus. 2. A mean, filthy, or gluttonous fellow. [Low.] 3. A young sheep that has not been shorn. [Eng.] 4. (Naut.) A rough, flat scrubbing broom for scrubbing a ship's bottom under water. --Totten. 5. (Paper Manuf.) A device for mixing and stirring the pulp of which paper is made. Bush hog, Ground hog, etc.. See under Bush, Ground, etc. Hog caterpillar (Zo["o]l.), the larva of the green grapevine sphinx; -- so called because the head and first three segments are much smaller than those behind them, so as to make a resemblance to a hog's snout. See Hawk moth. Hog cholera, an epidemic contagious fever of swine, attended by liquid, fetid, diarrhea, and by the appearance on the skin and mucous membrane of spots and patches of a scarlet, purple, or black color. It is fatal in from one to six days, or ends in a slow, uncertain recovery. --Law (Farmer's Veter. Adviser.) Hog deer (Zo["o]l.), the axis deer. Hog gum (Bot.), West Indian tree (Symphonia globulifera), yielding an aromatic gum. Hog of wool, the trade name for the fleece or wool of sheep of the second year. Hog peanut (Bot.), a kind of earth pea. Hog plum (Bot.), a tropical tree, of the genus Spondias (S. lutea), with fruit somewhat resembling plums, but chiefly eaten by hogs. It is found in the West Indies. Hog's bean (Bot.), the plant henbane. Hog's bread.(Bot.) See Sow bread. Hog's fennel. (Bot.) See under Fennel. Mexican hog (Zo["o]l.), the peccary. Water hog. (Zo["o]l.) See Capybara.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Hog Hog, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hogged; p. pr. & vb. n. Hogging.] 1. To cut short like bristles; as, to hog the mane of a horse. --Smart. 2. (Naut.) To scrub with a hog, or scrubbing broom.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(hogs, hogging, hogged) 1. A hog is a pig. In British English, hog usually refers to a large male pig that has been castrated, but in American English it can refer to any kind of pig. N-COUNT 2. If you hog something, you take all of it in a greedy or impolite way. (INFORMAL) Have you done hogging the bathroom?... VERB: V n 3. see also road hog 4. If you go the whole hog, you do something bold or extravagant in the most complete way possible. (INFORMAL) Well, I thought, I've already lost half my job, I might as well go the whole hog and lose it completely. PHRASE: V inflects

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Swine, porker, grunter.

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

A shilling. To drive one's hogs; to snore: the noise made by some persons in snoring, being not much unlike the notes of that animal. He has brought his hogs to a fine market; a saying of any one who has been remarkably successful in his affairs, and is spoken ironically to signify the contrary. A hog in armour; an awkward or mean looking man or woman, finely dressed, is said to look like a hog in armour. To hog a horse's mane; to cut it short, so that the ends of the hair stick up like hog's bristles. Jonian hogs; an appellation given to the members of St. John's College, Cambridge.

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