hog

Meaning

1. Any animal belonging to the Suidae family of mammals, especially the pig, the warthog, and the boar.
2. An adult swine (contrasted with a pig, a young swine).
3. A greedy person or thing; one who refuses to share; a gluttonous one.
4. A large motorcycle, particularly a Harley-Davidson.
5. A young sheep that has not been shorn.
6. A rough, flat scrubbing broom for scrubbing a ship's bottom under water.
7. A device for mixing and stirring the pulp from which paper is made.
8. A shilling coin; its value, 12 old pence.
9. A tanner, a sixpence coin; its value.
10. A half-crown coin; its value, 30 old pence.
11. The effect of the middle of the hull of a ship rising while the ends droop.
12. A penis.
13. To greedily take more than one's share, to take precedence at the expense of another or others.
14. To clip the mane of a horse, making it short and bristly.
15. (of a hedge) to trim up closely
16. To scrub with a hog, or scrubbing broom.
17. To cause the keel of a ship to arch upwards (the opposite of sag).
18. To take a rough cut, quickly removing material; to hog out.
19. To process (bark, etc.) into hog fuel.
20. A quahog (clam).
21. Abbreviation of histogram of oriented gradients.

Etymology / 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”).

Related words

Descendant words

• خوک(Persian) (cog)
• ihogo(Southern Ndebele) (bor)
• agu(Sranan Tongo) (der)

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