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hog

(hôg, hŏg)

a. Any of various mammals of the family Suidae, which includes the domesticated pig as well as wild species, such as the wild boar and the warthog.

b. A domesticated pig weighing over 54 kilograms (120 pounds).

a. A self-indulgent, gluttonous, or filthy person.

b. One that uses too much of something.

3. also hogg

a. Chiefly British A young sheep before it has been shorn.

b. The wool from this type of sheep.

4. Slang A big, heavy motorcycle.

v. hogged, hog·ging, hogs

v.tr.

1. Informal To take more than one's share of: Don't hog the couch.

2. To cause (the back) to arch like that of a hog.

3. To cut (a horse's mane) short and bristly.

4. To shred (waste wood, for example) by machine.

v.intr.

Nautical To arch upward in the middle. Used of a ship's keel.

Idiom:

high on/off the hog Slang

In a lavish or extravagant manner: lived high on the hog after getting his inheritance.

[Middle English, from Old English hogg, possibly of Celtic origin; see sū- in Indo-European roots.]

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hog

(hɒɡ)

1. (Animals) a domesticated pig, esp a castrated male weighing more than 102 kg

2. (Animals) US and Canadian any artiodactyl mammal of the family Suidae; pig

3. (Agriculture) dialect Also: hogg Brit and Austral and NZ another name for hogget

4. informal a selfish, greedy, or slovenly person

5. (Nautical Terms) nautical a stiff brush, for scraping a vessel's bottom

6. (Nautical Terms) nautical the amount or extent to which a vessel is hogged. Compare sag⁶

7. (Building) another word for camber⁴

8. (Automotive Engineering) slang chiefly US a large powerful motorcycle

9. go the whole hog informal to do something thoroughly or unreservedly: if you are redecorating one room, why not go the whole hog and paint the entire house?.

10. live high on the hog live high off the hog informal chiefly US to have an extravagant lifestyle

vb (tr) , hogs, hogging or hogged

11. slang to take more than one's share of

12. to arch (the back) like a hog

13. (Horse Training, Riding & Manège) to cut (the mane) of (a horse) very short

[Old English hogg, from Celtic; compare Cornish hoch]

ˈhogger n

ˈhogˌlike adj

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hog

(hɔg, hɒg)

n., v. hogged, hog•ging. n.

1. a domesticated swine, Sus scrofa; pig.

2. a domesticated swine weighing 120 lb. (54 kg) or more, raised for market.

3. any of various hoofed, even-toed mammals of the Old World family Suidae, including the wild boar, warthog, and domesticated swine.

4. a selfish, gluttonous, or filthy person.

5. Slang. a large motorcycle.

v.t.

6. to appropriate selfishly.

Idioms:

1. go (the) whole hog, to do something thoroughly.

2. live or eat high off or on the hog, to live prosperously and luxuriously.

[1300–50; Middle English; compare Old English hogg- in place names; perhaps < Celtic; compare Welsh hwch, Cornish hogh swine]

hog

hog - A pig weighing more than 120 pounds.
high on the hog - An allusion to the upper portions of a pig being the best for eating.
swine, hog, pig - Swine is the collective (and ancestral) term for domesticated pigs and hogs; a hog is 120 pounds or more and ready for market, while a pig is immature and weighs less.
hog on ice - Known mainly from the title of the book by Charles Earle Funk (1948); it is from the expression "as independent as a hog on ice," in which hog refers to the stone in the game of curling when it comes to rest.

hog

Past participle: hogged
Gerund: hogging

Imperative
hog
hog

Present
I hog
you hog
he/she/it hogs
we hog
you hog
they hog

Preterite
I hogged
you hogged
he/she/it hogged
we hogged
you hogged
they hogged

Present Continuous
I am hogging
you are hogging
he/she/it is hogging
we are hogging
you are hogging
they are hogging

Present Perfect
I have hogged
you have hogged
he/she/it has hogged
we have hogged
you have hogged
they have hogged

Past Continuous
I was hogging
you were hogging
he/she/it was hogging
we were hogging
you were hogging
they were hogging

Past Perfect
I had hogged
you had hogged
he/she/it had hogged
we had hogged
you had hogged
they had hogged

Future
I will hog
you will hog
he/she/it will hog
we will hog
you will hog
they will hog

Future Perfect
I will have hogged
you will have hogged
he/she/it will have hogged
we will have hogged
you will have hogged
they will have hogged

Future Continuous
I will be hogging
you will be hogging
he/she/it will be hogging
we will be hogging
you will be hogging
they will be hogging

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been hogging
you have been hogging
he/she/it has been hogging
we have been hogging
you have been hogging
they have been hogging

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been hogging
you will have been hogging
he/she/it will have been hogging
we will have been hogging
you will have been hogging
they will have been hogging

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been hogging
you had been hogging
he/she/it had been hogging
we had been hogging
you had been hogging
they had been hogging

Conditional
I would hog
you would hog
he/she/it would hog
we would hog
you would hog
they would hog

Past Conditional
I would have hogged
you would have hogged
he/she/it would have hogged
we would have hogged
you would have hogged
they would have hogged

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Noun	1.	hog - a person regarded as greedy and pig-like pig selfish person - a person who is unusually selfish
	2.	hog - a sheep up to the age of one year; one yet to be sheared hogget, hogg lamb - young sheep
	3.	hog - domestic swine pig, squealer, Sus scrofa, grunter swine - stout-bodied short-legged omnivorous animals genus Sus, Sus - type genus of the Suidae porker - a pig fattened to provide meat trotter - foot of a pig or sheep especially one used as food porc - meat from a domestic hog or pig lard - soft white semisolid fat obtained by rendering the fatty tissue of the hog
Verb	1.	hog - take greedily; take more than one's share snaffle, snap up, grab - get hold of or seize quickly and easily; "I snapped up all the good buys during the garage sale"

hog

noun (U.S.)

1. pig, swine, porker a hog farm in Alabama

verb

1. (Slang) monopolize, dominate, tie up, corner, corner the market in, be a dog in the manger Have you done hogging the bathroom?

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Translations

خِنْزيريأخُذ أو يَسْتَعْمِل أكثر مما يجبيَلْتَهِم بِشَراهَة

nenasytně hltatprasezabrat pro sebe

beslaglæggegrissvin

gierig verschlingen in Beschlag nehmen Schwein

γουρούνι

cerdo marrano puerco

porc accaparer cochon goinfrer

felfalráül

háma í sigsvíntaka meira en sinn skerf

maiale castrato monopolizzare paramezzale porco andare fino in fondo

kiaulėniekaipadaryti iki galopasičiuptipasiglemžti

aprītcūkaizmantotlietotrīt

ete grådig forsyne seg med mer enn sin del svin

suíno

nenásytne hltaťprivlastniť si

猪贪心攫取过多地拿取

hog

[hɒg]

A. N

1. (esp US) (= pig) → cerdo m, puerco m, chancho m (LAm)

2. (Brit) (= castrated pig) → cerdo m castrado
he's a greedy hog → es un cerdo
to go the whole hog → jugarse el todo por el todo

B. VT → acaparar
to hog the limelight → acaparar toda la atención

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hog

[ˈhɒg]

(= male pig) → verrat m; (castrated) → porc m châtré

to go the whole hog → aller jusqu'au bout

vt (fig) → accaparer, monopoliser
He's always hogging the bathroom → Il monopolise toujours la salle de bain.
to hog all the attention → accaparer toute l'attention
They shouldn't be allowing Phil to hog all the attention → Ils ne devraient pas permettre à Phil d'accaparer toute l'attention.
to hog the limelight → tenir la vedette
to hog the headlines → tenir la vedette, s'installer à la une des journaux
The weather hogged the headlines again today with many roads closed due to the snow → Le mauvais temps s'est une nouvelle fois installé à la une des journaux avec de nombreuses routes fermées à cause de la neige., Le mauvais temps tient une nouvelle fois la vedette avec de nombreuses routes fermées à cause de la neige.

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hog

→ (Mast)schwein nt; (US: = pig) → Schwein nt

(pej inf: = person) → Schwein nt (inf); (greedy) → Vielfraß m (inf); (selfish) → Sau f (inf); (dirty) → Sau f (inf), → Ferkel nt (inf) ? road hog, whole hog

vt (inf) → sich (dat) → aneignen, in Beschlag nehmen; he always hogs the bathroom → er nimmt immer das Badezimmer in Beschlag; she hogged his attention all evening → sie belegte ihn den ganzen Abend lang mit Beschlag; a lot of drivers hog the middle of the road → viele Fahrer meinen, sie hätten die Straßenmitte gepachtet (inf); stop hogging the ball! (Ftbl etc) → gib endlich (den Ball) ab!; to hog the limelight → alle Aufmerksamkeit für sich beanspruchen

hog

hogtie

vt (US) → an allen vieren fesseln; (fig inf) → handlungsunfähig machen; we’re hogd → uns (dat) → sind Hände und Füße gebunden

hogwash

(= swill) → Schweinefutter nt

(inf: = nonsense) → Quatsch m, → Quark m (inf), → blödes Zeug (inf)

hog wild

adj (US inf) to go hog → total ausflippen (inf)

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hog

[hɒg]

1. n → porco, maiale m
to go the whole hog (fig) → fare le cose fino in fondo

2. vt (fam) → accaparrarsi
to hog the road → guidare nel mezzo della strada

hog

(hog) noun

(especially American) a pig.

verb – past tense, past participle hogged –

1. to gobble up greedily.

2. to take or use more of than one ought to; to keep or use longer than one ought to. She's hogging the telephone and no-one else can use it.

ˈhogwash noun

(especially American) nonsense.

go the whole hog

to do something completely. I've bought a new dress – I think I'll go the whole hog and buy a complete outfit.

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They brought about ten thousand head of cattle every day, and as many hogs, and half as many sheep--which meant some eight or ten million live creatures turned into food every year.

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If these ladies were hogs to everybody and to themselves, it would be necessary to break the enchantment, and that might be impossible if one failed to find out the par- ticular process of the enchantment.

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One voyager in Purchas calls them the wondrous whiskers inside of the whale's mouth; another, hogs' bristles; a third old gentleman in Hackluyt uses the following elegant language: There are about two hundred and fifty fins growing on each side of his upper chop, which arch over his tongue on each side of his mouth.

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The natives were hurrying about hither and thither, engaged in various duties, some lugging off to the stream enormous hollow bamboos, for the purpose of filling them with water; others chasing furious-looking hogs through the bushes, in their endeavours to capture them; and numbers employed in kneading great mountains of poee-poee heaped up in huge wooden vessels.

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Uttering these last words, she waved her wand; and stamping her foot imperiously, each of the guests was struck aghast at beholding, instead of his comrades in human shape, one and twenty hogs sitting on the same number of golden thrones.

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There was one that told my lord a parcel of the confoundedest lies about me; he said that I used to drive my hogs into other folk's gardens, and a great deal more; and at last he said, he hoped I had at last brought my hogs to a fair market.

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The captain was desirous, however, of purchasing a number of hogs, but there were none to be had -The trade in pork was a royal monopoly, and no subject of the great Tamaahmaah dared to meddle with it.

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Perhaps I may add here that at the present time the school owns over two hundred horses, colts, mules, cows, calves, and oxen, and about seven hundred hogs and pigs, as well as a large number of sheep and goats.

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Tom Sawyer called the hogs "ingots," and he called the turnips and stuff "julery," and we would go to the cave and powwow over what we had done, and how many people we had killed and marked.

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I brought over with me for the use of our plantation, three horses, with harness and saddles, some hogs, two cows, and a thousand other things, the gift of the kindest and tenderest child that ever woman had.

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And then they entered a chamber where the walls were covered with hog's leather, and printed with gold flowers.

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As expert a woodman as I am, I had somehow failed to notice this until my attention was called to it by a hog. This hog was always wallowing there, and as he was the only hog we saw, his frequent repetition, together with his unvarying similarity to himself, finally caused me to reflect that he must be the same hog, and this led me to the deduction that this must be the same spring, also--which indeed it was.

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