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hog

UK/hɒɡ/ US/hɔɡ/ fairly common informal slang uk
verb (1) noun (3)

verb

1.

take greedily; take more than one''s share

noun

1.

a person regarded as greedy and pig-like

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2.

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

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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”).

Phrases

  • ball hog
  • bleed like a stuck hog
  • boar hog
  • bush hog
  • Catahoula hog dog
  • corn-hog ratio
  • crank one's hog
  • crank the hog
  • hog up

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