hog

noun

Any animal belonging to the Suidae family of mammals, especially the pig, the warthog, and the boar.

(specifically) An adult swine (contrasted with a pig, a young swine).

(informal) A greedy person or thing; one who refuses to share; a gluttonous one.

(slang) A large motorcycle, particularly a Harley-Davidson.

(UK) A young sheep that has not been shorn.

(nautical) A rough, flat scrubbing broom for scrubbing a ship's bottom under water.

A device for mixing and stirring the pulp from which paper is made.

(nautical) The effect of the middle of the hull of a ship rising while the ends droop.

(vulgar) A penis.

(informal) A quahog (clam).

(UK, historical, archaic slang, countable and uncountable) A shilling coin; its value, 12 old pence.

(UK, historical, obsolete slang, countable and uncountable) A tanner, a sixpence coin; its value.

(UK, historical, obsolete slang, countable and uncountable) A half-crown coin; its value, 30 old pence.

verb

(transitive, informal) To greedily take more than one's share, to take precedence at the expense of another or others.

(transitive) To clip the mane of a horse, making it short and bristly.

(Herefordshire) (of a hedge) to trim up closely

(nautical) To scrub with a hog, or scrubbing broom.

(transitive, nautical) To cause the keel of a ship to arch upwards (the opposite of sag).

(machining) To take a rough cut, quickly removing material; to hog out.

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

Synonyms for hog

pign swinen porkern pigling boarn shoatn pigletn piggyn razorbackn

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