hog vs hogg what difference
what is difference between hog and hogg
English
Alternative forms
- (UK, dialectal) ‘og
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /hɒɡ/
- (US) IPA(key): /hɑɡ/, /hɔɡ/
- Rhymes: -ɒɡ
- Homophone: hogg
Etymology 1
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”).
Noun
hog (plural hogs)
- 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).
- 2005 April, Live Swine from Canada, Investigation No. 731-TA-1076 (Final), publication 3766, April 2005, U.S. International Trade Commission →ISBN, page I-9:
- Weanlings grow into feeder pigs, and feeder pigs grow into slaughter hogs. […] Ultimately the end use for virtually all pigs and hogs is to be slaughtered for the production of pork and other products.
- 2005 April, Live Swine from Canada, Investigation No. 731-TA-1076 (Final), publication 3766, April 2005, U.S. International Trade Commission →ISBN, page I-9:
- A greedy person or thing; one who refuses to share.
- (slang) A large motorcycle, particularly a Harley-Davidson.
- (Britain) A young sheep that has not been shorn.
- (nautical) A rough, flat scrubbing broom for scrubbing a ship’s bottom under water.
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- A device for mixing and stirring the pulp from which paper is made.
- (Britain, historical, archaic slang, countable and uncountable) A shilling coin; its value, 12 old pence.
- 1933, George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London, xxix
- ‘’Ere y’are, the best rig-out you ever ’ad. A tosheroon [half a crown] for the coat, two ’ogs for the trousers, one and a tanner for the boots, and a ’og for the cap and scarf. That’s seven bob.’
- 1933, George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London, xxix
- (Britain, historical, obsolete slang, countable and uncountable) A tanner, a sixpence coin; its value.
- (Britain, historical, obsolete slang, countable and uncountable) A half-crown coin; its value, 30 old pence.
- (nautical) the effect of the middle of the hull of a ship rising while the ends droop
Hyponyms
- (shilling coins) white hog, black hog
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
hog (third-person singular simple present hogs, present participle hogging, simple past and past participle hogged)
- (transitive) To greedily take more than one’s share, to take precedence at the expense of another or others.
- 2000 DiCamillo, Kate Because of Winn-Dixie, Scholastic Inc., New York, Ch 15:
- The […] air-conditioning unit didn’t work very good, and there was only one fan; and from the minute me and Winn-Dixie got in the library, he hogged it all.
- Hey! Quit hogging all the blankets.
- 2000 DiCamillo, Kate Because of Winn-Dixie, Scholastic Inc., New York, Ch 15:
- (transitive) To clip the mane of a horse, making it short and bristly.
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- (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).
Synonyms
- (take greedily): bogart
Translations
Etymology 2
Verb
hog (third-person singular simple present hogs, present participle hogging, simple past and past participle hogged)
- (transitive) To process (bark, etc.) into hog fuel.
Derived terms
- unhogged
Etymology 3
Clipping of quahog
Noun
hog (plural hogs)
- (informal) A quahog (clam)
Anagrams
- GOH, GoH, Goh, OHG, OHG., gho
Middle English
Alternative forms
- ogge, hogge, hoge, hooge
Etymology
From Old English hogg, hocg; further etymology is disputed.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hɔɡ/, /hɔːɡ/
Noun
hog (plural hogges, genitive hogges)
- A pig or swine, especially one that is castrated and male.
- The meat of swine or pigs.
- A hogget or young sheep.
Synonyms
- swine
- pigge
Related terms
- hoggeshed
Descendants
- English: hog
- Scots: hog, hogue
References
- “hogge, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.
Volapük
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hoɡ/
Noun
hog (nominative plural hogs)
- hole
Declension
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /hɒɡ/
- (US) IPA(key): /hɑɡ/, /hɔːɡ/
- Rhymes: -ɒɡ
- Homophone: hog
Noun
hogg (plural hoggs)
- A young sheep of either gender, until it cuts its first two teeth; a hogget.
Norwegian Bokmål
Alternative forms
- (of simple past) hogde
Verb
hogg
- simple past of hogge
- imperative of hogge
Norwegian Nynorsk
Verb
hogg
- past tense of hogga and hogge
- imperative of hogga and hogge
Old English
Alternative forms
- hocg
Etymology
Uncertain. Possibly derived from Old Norse hǫggva (“to strike, chop, cut”), from Proto-Germanic *hawwaną (“to hew, forge”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /xoɡɡ/, [hoɡ]
Noun
hogg m (nominative plural hoggas)
- hog, especially a castrated male (family Suidae)
Declension
Descendants
- Middle English: hog
- English: hog