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Added 9 October 2026

hog

/hɒɡ/ noun

In Latin: sūs Wiktionary

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Any animal belonging to the Suidae family of mammals, especially the pig, the warthog, and the boar. An adult swine, at or above a certain body weight.
An adult swine, at or above a certain body weight.
A greedy person or thing; one who refuses to share; a gluttonous one.
resource hog

verb

To greedily take more than one's share, to take precedence at the expense of another or others.
Hey! Quit hogging all the blankets.
To clip the mane of a horse, making it short and bristly. (of a hedge) to trim up closely
To scrub with a hog, or scrubbing broom.

verb

To process (bark, etc.) into hog fuel.

noun

A quahog (clam).

Origin

From Middle English hog, from Old English hogg, hocg (“hog”), possibly from Old Norse hǫggva (“to strike, chop, cut”), from Proto-Germanic *hawwaną (“to hew, forge”), from Proto-Indo-European *kewh₂- (“to beat, hew, forge”). Cognate with Old High German houwan, Old Saxon hauwan, Old English hēawan (English hew). Hog originally meant a castrated male pig, hence a sense of “the cut one”. (Compare hogget for a castrated male sheep.) More at hew. Alternatively from a Brythonic language, from Proto-Celtic *sukkos, from Proto-Indo-European *suH- and thus cognate with Welsh hwch (“sow”) and Cornish hogh (“pig”).

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