hog

Meanings

Plural: hogs

Noun

a person regarded as greedy and pig-like
a sheep up to the age of one year; one yet to be sheared
domestic swine
Any animal belonging to the Suidae family of mammals, especially the pig, the warthog, and the boar.
An adult swine (contrasted with a pig, a young swine).
A greedy person or thing; one who refuses to share; a gluttonous one.
A large motorcycle, particularly a Harley-Davidson.
A young sheep that has not been shorn.
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.
A shilling coin; its value, 12 old pence.
A tanner, a sixpence coin; its value.
A half-crown coin; its value, 30 old pence.
The effect of the middle of the hull of a ship rising while the ends droop.
A penis.
A quahog (clam).

Verb

take greedily; take more than one's share
To greedily take more than one's share, to take precedence at the expense of another or others.
To clip the mane of a horse, making it short and bristly.
To scrub with a hog, or scrubbing broom.
To cause the keel of a ship to arch upwards (the opposite of sag).
To take a rough cut, quickly removing material; to hog out.
To process (bark, etc.) into hog fuel.

Origin / 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”).

Synonyms

belly-god, bogart, buzgut, cormorant, epicure, gannet, glutton, gorger, gormandizer, gourmand, greedyguts, grunter, guttle, helluo, hog, hogg, hogget, Homer Simpson, pig, slow belly, squealer, Sus scrofa, trencherman

Scrabble Score: 7

hog is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
hog is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
hog is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 7

hog is a valid Words With Friends word