“hogs” is a form of
hog
UK /hɒɡ/ · US /hɔɡ/ noun, verb
Forms hogs hogging hogged 'og
- noun Any animal belonging to the Suidae family of mammals, especially the pig, the warthog, and the boar.
- noun (specifically) An adult swine, at or above a certain body weight.
- noun (figuratively, informal) A greedy person or thing; one who refuses to share; a gluttonous one. “resource hog”
- noun (slang) A large motorcycle, particularly a Harley-Davidson.
- noun (UK) A young sheep that has not been shorn.
- noun (nautical) A rough, flat scrubbing broom for scrubbing a ship's bottom under water.
- noun A device for mixing and stirring the pulp from which paper is made.
- noun (UK, historical, archaic slang, countable and uncountable) A shilling coin; its value, 12 old pence.
- verb (transitive, informal) To greedily take more than one's share, to take precedence at the expense of another or others. “Hey! Quit hogging all the blankets.”
- verb (transitive) To clip the mane of a horse, making it short and bristly.
- verb (Herefordshire) (of a hedge) to trim up closely
- verb (nautical) To scrub with a hog, or scrubbing broom.
- verb (transitive, nautical) To cause the keel of a ship to arch upwards (the opposite of sag).
- verb (machining) To take a rough cut, quickly removing material; to hog out.
- verb (transitive) To process (bark, etc.) into hog fuel.
- noun (informal) A quahog (clam).
Synonyms
pig animal belly-god big back buzgut cormorant dog epicure gannet glutton gorger gourmand gormandizer greedyguts guttle Homer Simpson helluo slow belly trencherman bogart hogget hogg grunter squealer Sus scrofa
Etymology
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”).
Clipping of quahog.
Webster’s 1913
- noun A quadruped of the genus Sus, and allied genera of Suidæ; 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.
- noun A mean, filthy, or gluttonous fellow. [Low.]
- verb To cut short like bristles; as, to hog the mane of a horse. Smart.
- verb To scrub with a hog, or scrubbing broom.
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.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “hog”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details