HOG (hogged, hogging)

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Irregular inflected forms: hogged    , hogging   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does hog mean? 

• HOG (noun)
  The noun HOG has 3 senses:

1. a person regarded as greedy and pig-like

2. a sheep up to the age of one year; one yet to be sheared

3. domestic swine

  Familiarity information: HOG used as a noun is uncommon.

• HOG (verb)
  The verb HOG has 1 sense:

1. take greedily; take more than one's share

  Familiarity information: HOG used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOG (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person regarded as greedy and pig-like

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

hog; pig

Hypernyms ("hog" is a kind of...):

selfish person (a person who is unusually selfish)

Derivation:

hog (take greedily; take more than one's share)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A sheep up to the age of one year; one yet to be sheared

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

hog; hogg; hogget

Hypernyms ("hog" is a kind of...):

lamb (young sheep)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Domestic swine

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

grunter; hog; pig; squealer; Sus scrofa

Hypernyms ("hog" is a kind of...):

swine (stout-bodied short-legged omnivorous animals)

Meronyms (parts of "hog"):

trotter (foot of a pig or sheep especially one used as food)

porc; pork (meat from a domestic hog or pig)

Meronyms (substance of "hog"):

lard (soft white semisolid fat obtained by rendering the fatty tissue of the hog)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hog"):

porker (a pig fattened to provide meat)

Holonyms ("hog" is a member of...):

genus Sus; Sus (type genus of the Suidae)

• HOG (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they hog    ... he / she / it hogs   
Past simple: hogged   
Past participle: hogged   
-ing form: hogging   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Take greedily; take more than one's share

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "hog" is one way to...):

grab; snaffle; snap up (get hold of or seize quickly and easily)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

hog (a person regarded as greedy and pig-like)

 Context examples 

“You prate of holy things, to which your hog's mind can never rise. Keep silence, lest I call a curse upon you!”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They had been hogging the sea, and they knew Wolf Larsen, by reputation at any rate.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Well, at least you are better than that herd of swine in Vienna, whose gregarious grunt is, however, not more offensive than the isolated effort of the British hog.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In another apartment I was highly pleased with a projector who had found a device of ploughing the ground with hogs, to save the charges of ploughs, cattle, and labour.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

"I'm as unselfish as a famished hog."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

If that be holiness, I could show you hogs in this forest who are fit to head the calendar.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The Macedonia repeated her performance of yesterday, “hogging” the sea by dropping her line of boats in advance of ours and across our course.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

At the current price of skins in the London market, and based on a fair estimate of what the afternoon’s catch would have been had not the Macedonia hogged it, the Ghost has lost about fifteen hundred dollars’ worth of skins.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

“I’m going to give that brother of mine a taste of his own medicine. In short, I’m going to play the hog myself, and not for one day, but for the rest of the season,—if we’re in luck.”

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Jimmy was bound to get ahead. He always had some resolves like this or something. Do you notice what he's got about improving his mind? He was always great for that. He told me I et like a hog once and I beat him for it.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)