hog
/hɔɡ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.57 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Any animal belonging to the Suidae family of mammals, especially the pig, the warthog, and the boar.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "resource hog"
- "Since the latest upgrade, this program has turned into a CPU hog."
- "Yeah, whatever you old dried up fat hog."
- "[…] bike. That rider looked relatively young. If he's a Border Force guy just doing a nine to five job back there, I'd like to know where he gets the money to ride that hog,” Max said. “Looks expensive,” Chloe replied."
- "[…] bike balanced almost vertically while coasting to a nearly complete stop; […] ride that hog one hundred miles an hour up and off a ramp, […]"
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”).
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Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /hɔɡ/
- British English: /hɒɡ/