[syn: hog, pig, grunter, squealer, Sus scrofa]
VERB (1)
1. take greedily; take more than one's share;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Hog \Hog\ (h[o^]g), n. [Prob. akin to E. hack to cut, and
meaning orig., a castrated boar; cf. also W. hwch swine, sow,
Armor. houc'h, hoc'h. Cf. Haggis, Hogget, and
Hoggerel.]
1. (Zool.) A quadruped of the genus Sus, and allied genera
of Suid[ae]; esp., the domesticated varieties of Sus
scrofa, kept for their fat and meat, called,
respectively, lard and pork; swine; porker;
specifically, a castrated boar; a barrow.
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Note: The domestic hogs of Siam, China, and parts of Southern
Europe, are thought to have been derived from Sus
Indicus.
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2. A mean, filthy, or gluttonous fellow. [Low.]
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3. A young sheep that has not been shorn. [Eng.]
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4. (Naut.) A rough, flat scrubbing broom for scrubbing a
ship's bottom under water. --Totten.
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5. (Paper Manuf.) A device for mixing and stirring the pulp
of which paper is made.
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Bush hog, Ground hog, etc.. See under Bush, Ground,
etc.
Hog caterpillar (Zool.), the larva of the green grapevine
sphinx; -- so called because the head and first three
segments are much smaller than those behind them, so as to
make a resemblance to a hog's snout. See Hawk moth.
Hog cholera, an epidemic contagious fever of swine,
attended by liquid, fetid, diarrhea, and by the appearance
on the skin and mucous membrane of spots and patches of a
scarlet, purple, or black color. It is fatal in from one
to six days, or ends in a slow, uncertain recovery. --Law
(Farmer's Veter. Adviser.)
Hog deer (Zool.), the axis deer.
Hog gum (Bot.), West Indian tree (Symphonia globulifera),
yielding an aromatic gum.
Hog of wool, the trade name for the fleece or wool of sheep
of the second year.
Hog peanut (Bot.), a kind of earth pea.
Hog plum (Bot.), a tropical tree, of the genus Spondias
(Spondias lutea), with fruit somewhat resembling plums,
but chiefly eaten by hogs. It is found in the West Indies.
Hog's bean (Bot.), the plant henbane.
Hog's bread.(Bot.) See Sow bread.
Hog's fennel. (Bot.) See under Fennel.
Mexican hog (Zool.), the peccary.
Water hog. (Zool.) See Capybara.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Hog \Hog\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hogged; p. pr. & vb. n.
Hogging.]
1. To cut short like bristles; as, to hog the mane of a
horse. --Smart.
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2. (Naut.) To scrub with a hog, or scrubbing broom.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Hog \Hog\, v. i. (Naut.)
To become bent upward in the middle, like a hog's back; --
said of a ship broken or strained so as to have this form.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
hog
n 1: a person regarded as greedy and pig-like [syn: hog,
pig]
2: a sheep up to the age of one year; one yet to be sheared
[syn: hog, hogget, hogg]
3: domestic swine [syn: hog, pig, grunter, squealer,
Sus scrofa]
v 1: take greedily; take more than one's share
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
81 Moby Thesaurus words for "hog":
adopt, appropriate, arrogate, assume, barrow, belly-god, boar,
careerist, colonize, conquer, cormorant, corner, egotist, engross,
enslave, forestall, fortune hunter, gilt, glutton, gorger, gormand,
gormandizer, gourmand, gourmandizer, greedy eater, greedygut,
greedyguts, guttler, husky eater, indent, individualist,
jump a claim, lone wolf, loner, make free with, make use of,
monopolist, monopolize, narcissist, occupy, overrun, pig, piggy,
piglet, pigling, porker, preempt, preoccupy, prepossess, razorback,
requisition, road hog, self-advancer, self-pleaser, self-seeker,
self-server, shoat, sit on, slattern, sloven, slut, sow, squat on,
subjugate, suckling pig, swine, take all of, take it all,
take over, take possession of, take up, temporizer, tie up,
timepleaser, timeserver, trencherman, trencherwoman, tufthunter,
tusker, usurp, wild boar
The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003):
hog
n.,vt.
1. Favored term to describe programs or hardware that seem to eat far more
than their share of a system's resources, esp. those which noticeably
degrade interactive response. Not used of programs that are simply
extremely large or complex or that are merely painfully slow themselves.
More often than not encountered in qualified forms, e.g., memory hog, core
hog, hog the processor, hog the disk. ?A controller that never gives up the
I/O bus gets killed after the bus-hog timer expires.?
2. Also said of people who use more than their fair share of resources
(particularly disk, where it seems that 10% of the people use 90% of the
disk, no matter how big the disk is or how many people use it). Of course,
once disk hogs fill up one filesystem, they typically find some other new
one to infect, claiming to the sysadmin that they have an important new
project to complete.
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):
hog
A term used to describe programs, hardware or people that
use more than their share of a system's resources, especially
those which noticeably degrade interactive response.
The term is usually qualified, e.g. "memory hog", "core hog", "hog
the processor", "hog the disk". E.g. "A controller that never
gives up the I/O bus gets killed after the bus-hog timer
expires."
User also hog resources, particularly disk, where it seems that
10% of the people use 90% of the disk, no matter how big the disk
is or how many people use it. Once a disk hog fills up one file
system, he typically finds a new one to consume, claiming to the
sysadmin that they have an important new project to complete.
(2014-08-16)
The Devil's Dictionary (1881-1906):
HOG, n. A bird remarkable for the catholicity of its appetite and
serving to illustrate that of ours. Among the Mahometans and Jews,
the hog is not in favor as an article of diet, but is respected for
the delicacy and the melody of its voice. It is chiefly as a songster
that the fowl is esteemed; the cage of him in full chorus has been
known to draw tears from two persons at once. The scientific name of
this dicky-bird is _Porcus Rockefelleri_. Mr. Rockefeller did not
discover the hog, but it is considered his by right of resemblance.